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11 - Senior Staff Engineer, Software

Celestica
San Jose, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 May 2026
💰 $268,734/yr($171,956/yr$268,734/yr)

About the role

Req ID: 127828 
Region: Americas 
Country: USA 
State/Province: California 
City:  San Jose 

General Overview

Job Title: Principal, Design Engineering
Functional Area: Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream: Engineering (ENG)
Role: Principal (PRI)
Job Code: PRI-ENG-DSGN
Job Band: 12
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Detailed Description

Must have 10 or more years of Network SWITCH development experience from companies similar to CISCO, Juniper, Arista, etc. 

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

  • Lead the design, development and implementation of technical solutions for complex projects, involving multiple domains. Participate in project planning and scheduling.
  • Global SME with comprehensive knowledge and industry recognition. Provides technical leadership and direction to a global team of engineers.
  • Take responsibility for non-technical elements of an engineering project (people, financials etc.)
  • Review and interpret customer specifications and may act as primary customer contact.
  • Analyze trade-offs in complex systems and recommend solutions. Develops deployment strategies and plans.
  • Lead the deployment of strategic complex programs and coordinate site-wide deployment efforts.
  • May manage relationships with key vendors/partners

Software Development:

  • You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and testing software that runs on Compute, Networking and Storage appliances, enabling high-performance networking and computing appplications at hyperscalers.
  • Optimize code for performance, efficiency, and low latency
  • Innovate new ideas in conjunction with networking and compute engineers to optimize overall data center efficiency
  • Architect solutions for customer’s data center management needs working with multiple lower-level drivers, OS, libraries 

Hardware Integration:

  • You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and testing software that runs on Compute, Networking and Storage appliances, enabling high-performance networking and compute applications
  • Troubleshoot and resolve hardware-software interaction issues

Performance Optimization:

  • Analyze and optimize network performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions.
  • Develop and implement performance testing methodologies and tools.

Security:

  • Design and implement security features for Compute, Networking and Storage appliances software, ensuring data integrity and confidentiality
  • Stay up-to-date on security best practices and vulnerability remediation

Collaboration:

  • Work effectively in a team environment, collaborating with engineers and peer functional leads from different disciplines to innovate solutions, triage issues and speed execution
  • Work with product line management, customers and sales teams to understand requirements 
  • Explain the value addition software brings to technical and non-technical audiences. 

Leadership

  • Mentor and coach team members on the technical skills and approaches to solve problems.
  • Review and maintain quality of code going into production. 
  • Architect software applications that will work across multiple technology generations with minimal changes.
  • Present innovation and value addition from our software in technical forums and customer interactions 

Summary

Celestica is expanding its team and seeking talented, passionate Principal Software Engineers to contribute to our next-generation data center networking, and AI compute blade systems. You will be instrumental in designing, developing, and testing the critical software running on Compute, Switches, and Storage systems. You will take ownership of the entire software stack and translate vital customer requirements into market-leading product features. 

 

You will write, debug, maintain, and test software in various common languages and for software at various levels in the hierarchy (from Firmware to Application). Software creation follows an agreed to development process (such as Agile, Scrum, etc.) and complies with the product life cycle development (phase/gate deliverables).


The Principal Engineer, Software works in cross functional teams with other designers, customers, manufacturing engineering and project leadership to ensure robust and high quality product development. Enhance designs with feedback from reviews in ar

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