Lead Software Engineer – Network Management & Observability
This role has been designed as "Onsite" with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.
Who We Are
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world.
Job Description
In the HPE Hybrid Cloud, we lead the innovation agenda and technology roadmap for all of HPE. This includes managing the design, development, and product portfolio of our next-generation cloud platform, Green Lake. Working with customers, we help them reimagine their information technology needs to deliver a simple, consumable solution that helps them drive their business results.
What You Will Do
1.Design, develop, and maintain Network Topology Management accuracy and reliability.
2.Build and optimize topology discovery and processing pipelines for L2 and L3 relationships.
3.Debugging and resolve topology defects.
4.Improve topology reconciliation, graph consistency, and end-to-end observability.
5.Collaborate with backend, frontend, network domain, SRE, and product teams to deliver NTM-first solutions.
6.Build operational tooling and diagnostics for fast root-cause analysis in distributed systems.
7.Contribute to Network Configuration Management as secondary focus, including backup, compliance, remediation, and restore reliability.
8.Improve user-facing workflows for topology and configuration operations in UI experiences.
9.Support production readiness through testing, monitoring, performance tuning, and incident response.
10.Identify and drive improvements in reliability, scalability, and maintainability of NTM and NCM systems.
11.Design and develop vast and various Network topologies in virtual using different tools like Netlab, Containerlab, etc.
What You Need to Bring
1.8-12+ years of software engineering experience in scalable enterprise systems.
2.Strong Java Programming: Proficiency in writing robust, scalable Java applications with a solid grasp of core development fundamentals, object-oriented design, and micro services architecture.
3.Core Networking Expertise: Deep understanding of network fundamentals, including L2/L3 concepts (VLANs, Routing), gateway protocols (BGP), and secure tunnels (IPsec, GRE).
4.Advanced Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and algorithmic problem-solving skills, with a track record of debugging complex systems and tackling distributed engineering challenges.
5.Hands on experience with any of network device OS like Arista (EOS), Cisco (NXOS, IOS, XE-IOS), Juniper (Junos), Aruba, etc.
6.Hands on experience with tools like Docker, Containerlab, Netlab, postman, etc.
7.Must have knowledge on SNMP Domain skills and hands on experience with network devices CLI.
8.Experience with APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data processing pipelines.
9.Experience debugging production issues across service, data, and UI layers.
10.Ability to design robust retry, failure handling, and recovery mechanisms.
11.MUST strong AI-First SDLC skills.
12.Good Exposure on the AI agents/skills/workflows to automate the work.
13.Strong collaboration and communication skills.
14.Strong problem-solving mindset with focus on operational impact and customer outcomes.
Good to Have
1.Network Discovery & Observability: Experience with network discovery, topology reconciliation at scale, and observability tooling for logs, metrics, and traces.
2.Full-Stack Capabilities: Hands-on exposure to front-end development, particularly React and TypeScript, for operational UI integrations.
3.Systems Engineering: Experience with performance tuning, reliability engineering, and building resilient cloud architectures.
4.Security & Design: A security-first mindset when building multi-tenant systems, coupled with strong cross-domain knowledge and design-thinking principles.
5.Release Management: Familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines and agile release management.
6.Community Engagement: Open-source contributions, technical blogs, or architecture notes related to networking or distributed systems.
Accessibility
HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities.
