Platform Software Engineer (Networking Systems)

Systems Software Engineer

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

Job Description:

Intelligent Edge is helping some of the world’s largest and most exciting companies modernize their networks for a digital future. Through Aruba (an HPE Company), we’re providing next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise – creating new customer experiences by building intelligent spaces and digital workspaces. Join us redefine what’s next for you.

Platform Software Engineer (Networking Systems)

Architect and build the system software behind high-performance networking platforms- owning design decisions end-to-end, optimizing for reliability and performance, and delivering capabilities that run at scale in real-world deployments.

Management Level Definition:

Contributions include applying intermediate level of subject matter expertise to solve common technical problems. Acts as an informed team member providing analysis of information and recommendations for appropriate action. Works independently within an established framework and with moderate supervision.

What you’ll do:

Responsibilities:

• Drive system design and implementation for platform software across core networking subsystems, including:
• Chassis/line-card platform services, Ethernet interfaces, optics, and the underlying system infrastructure that ties hardware and software together
• Own architecture and end-to-end delivery within JunOS or Junos Evolved—define interfaces, evaluate design tradeoffs, implement, and integrate across the stack.
• Partner with system and solution test teams to set quality bars and build performance and reliability requirements, build strong test strategy, and shorten debug/triage cycles.
• Work with JTAC as the engineering escalation path - perform root-cause analysis on production issues, drive fixes to closure, and harden the platform to prevent regressions.

What you need to bring:

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or closely related quantitative discipline. Master’s desirable.
• Typically, 2-4 years’ experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Deep experience with low-level systems: device drivers, board/system bring-up, and FreeBSD/Linux internals.
• Strong systems debugging skills - able to isolate cross-layer failures (hardware/firmware/OS), and reason about performance, concurrency, and resource bottlenecks.
• AI-first engineering mindset: comfortable using AI-assisted tools (e.g., coding copilots, LLM-based assistants) to accelerate design, implementation, and debugging - while validating outputs, writing tests, and protecting sensitive data.
• Requirement: consistently apply AI-assisted workflows across the system design lifecycle (problem framing → tradeoffs/interfaces → implementation → test/verification → production triage) to improve speed, quality, and reliability.
• Habit of documenting decisions and using lightweight design artifacts (problem statements, tradeoffs, interfaces) to align quickly and iterate with the team.
• Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, Ethernet; familiarity with switching concepts is a plus).
• Strong C/C++ engineering: clean API/interface design, OO design, data structures, and comfort with low-level/system debugging tooling.
• Working knowledge of hardware/firmware interfaces and integration points (Optics, PCIe, SPI, I2C, FPGA/CPLD) - able to translate datasheets into robust software abstractions.
• Bonus: prior experience shipping system software for networking products (platforms, routers/switches, or similar).

Additional Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Release Management, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX)

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.

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