Senior Software Engineer Datapath

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Westford, MA, United States
17 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
6 years minimum
Compensation
$136,500.0 - $260,500.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Agile Methodology C++ (Programming Language) Computer Engineering Continuous Integration Software Debugging Linux Distributed Systems Object-Oriented Software Development Big O Software Deployment Software Engineering Multithreading
+2 more
Test-Driven Development (TDD) Information Technology

Job description

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Requirements

  • B.S or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 6+ years of experience developing software or hardware-based datapaths
  • Working experience with DPDK, VPP or other software datapath frameworks
  • Solid C++ developer and debugging skills
  • Ability to deliver clean, modular code quickly and efficiently
  • Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems
  • Excellent debugging and optimization skills
  • Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems
  • Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, development, and deployment process
  • Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
  • High degree of competency working with multi-threaded development
  • Experience developing on Linux operating systems
  • Strong communication skills, both in written and verbal, to effectively understand and convey issues and solutions to peers and end users.
  • Experience with Agile development process
  • Experience with Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration

Benefits & conditions

“The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

  • United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 260,500 in Massachusetts The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.”

About the company

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. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE., The SD-WAN engineering team works on a highly scalable, distributed SDWAN application that is AI-Driven. You will have the chance to create and implement inventive solutions for the architectural complexities involved in intelligent path routing. You will actively work on project teams with other highly skilled engineers involved in the software development for WAN Assurance - A hyper-scalable cloud AIOps platform. Day to day activities will involve crafting new features, understanding features in a results-oriented product, and proposing solutions that work for our platforms, writing functional and design specifications, programming, unit and integration testing your code, helping review specifications and code for other software engineers on the team, and helping documentation team with the configuration aspects of your features.

  • Contribute to the design and development of an optimized, high-speed software-based forwarding plane
  • Network software running on both hardware appliances and virtual machines that provide zero touch connectivity to Mist-managed network and SD-WAN functions
  • Drive development from technology selection to product delivery, collaborating with product managers and product designers all along the way to give our users the best possible experience
  • Identify and improve the efficiency, scalability, operability of the product
  • Participate in design and code reviews
  • Guiding on technical design

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