Senior Software Engineering Manager

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office., Lead a geographically distributed team of solutions and test engineers responsible for architecting, validating, and publishing Juniper Validated Designs (JVDs) across AI/ML cluster, data center, DCI, and campus portfolios. The manager owns team delivery, people development, lab and testbed investment, and cross-functional alignment for NPI programs, while remaining technically credible enough to guide architecture decisions and customer escalations., People Leadership

• Manage, hire, and develop a global team of solutions engineers, including goal setting, performance reviews, career planning, and compensation input.
• Build team autonomy through coaching and mentoring, and develop a succession pipeline of senior and principal engineers.
• Foster a culture of quality ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning across sites and time zones.

Program and Delivery Ownership

• Own the solution validation roadmap and quarterly commitments for NPI programs, from multi-feature testing through scale validation and JVD publication.
• Plan capacity, prioritize work across competing programs, and manage schedule risk and dependencies.
• Define and report team metrics: release quality, defect escape rate, automation coverage, JVD delivery, and escalation turnaround.
• Act as a release quality gate, with authority to hold releases that do not meet customer-readiness criteria.

Technical Strategy

• Set technical direction for AI/ML data center validation: scale-out and scale-up GPU fabrics, RoCEv2, load balancing (DLB, GLB, RLB), congestion control (DCQCN, ECN, PFC), multi-tenancy, and JCT-based performance measurement.
• Guide architecture for EVPN-VXLAN fabrics, DCI (EVPN-MPLS, Type-2/Type-5 stitching), and campus/branch solutions.
• Drive the automation strategy (Python, Robot Framework) and sponsor reusable, topology-independent frameworks.

Resources and Budget

• Plan and justify lab, GPU, NIC, and test equipment investments.
• Manage testbed utilization and capital requests.

Stakeholder and Customer Engagement

• Partner with Product Management, TME, SE, JTAC, and development engineering on solution definition, POCs, and product strategy.
• Serve as management escalation point for critical customer issues in AI cluster, data center, and campus deployments.
• Sponsor white papers, JVDs, and customer-facing technical content.

• 12+ years in network engineering, solutions validation, or systems test, with 3+ years leading teams (formally or as technical lead of distributed engineers).
• Demonstrated record of mentoring engineers, driving cross-functional programs, and resolving customer escalations.
• Proven ability to own delivery commitments, prioritize across competing programs, and make release-quality decisions.
• Strong written and executive communication skills, including presenting to customers and senior leadership.
• Deep expertise in data center fabrics: EVPN-VXLAN, IP Clos, CRB/ERB, underlay/overlay design.
• Strong command of L2/L3 and multicast protocols: BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, BFD, PIM, IGMP.
• Hands-on AI/ML cluster networking experience: RDMA/RoCEv2, congestion control (DCQCN, ECN, PFC), and load balancing.
• Experience building test automation frameworks (Python, Robot Framework) and large-scale, customer-representative testbeds.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior formal people-management experience, including hiring, performance reviews, and compensation planning.
• Budget or capital planning experience for labs and test infrastructure.
• Experience with GPU platforms (NVIDIA A100/H100, AMD MI300X) and NICs (ConnectX, Pollara), including JCT-based performance benchmarking.
• DCI expertise: EVPN-MPLS, L3VPN, Type-2/Type-5 stitching.
• Campus and branch solution experience: EVPN multihoming, distributed gateway, filter-based forwarding.
• Familiarity with traffic generators and analysis tools (Spirent, IXIA, Wireshark).
• JNCIP-DC or equivalent certification.
• Published validated designs, white papers, or conference presentations.

“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 135,500 - 275,000 in California The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.”

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