HPE

Lead Software Engineer – Network Management & Observability

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3 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain accurate and reliable Network Topology Management systems.
  • Build and optimize topology discovery and processing pipelines for L2 and L3 relationships.
  • Debug topology defects and improve reconciliation, graph consistency, scalability, maintainability, and end-to-end observability.
  • Build operational tooling and diagnostics for root-cause analysis in distributed systems.
  • Contribute to Network Configuration Management, including backup, compliance, remediation, and restore reliability.
  • Improve user-facing topology and configuration workflows in UI experiences.
  • Support production readiness through testing, monitoring, performance tuning, and incident response.
  • Design and develop virtual network topologies using tools such as Netlab and Containerlab.
  • Collaborate with backend, frontend, network-domain, SRE, and product teams.

Requirements

  • 8–12+ years of software engineering experience in scalable enterprise systems.
  • Strong Java programming skills, including robust scalable applications, object-oriented design, and microservices architecture.
  • Deep networking knowledge covering L2/L3 concepts, VLANs, routing, BGP, IPsec, and GRE.
  • Experience with network device operating systems such as Arista EOS, Cisco NXOS, IOS, XE-IOS, Junos, and Aruba.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker, Containerlab, Netlab, Postman, network-device CLIs, and SNMP.
  • Experience with APIs, asynchronous workflows, data-processing pipelines, and debugging production issues across service, data, and UI layers.
  • Ability to design retry, failure-handling, and recovery mechanisms for distributed systems.
  • Strong AI-first SDLC skills and exposure to AI agents, skills, or workflows that automate work.
  • Preferred experience with network discovery, topology reconciliation at scale, observability tooling, React, TypeScript, performance tuning, reliability engineering, resilient cloud architectures, security-first multi-tenant systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong collaboration, communication, analytical problem-solving, and customer-outcome focus.

Benefits

  • Health, financial, and emotional wellbeing benefits for employees and their loved ones.
  • Personal and professional development programs supporting career growth and opportunities across divisions.
  • Inclusive workplace culture and flexibility to manage work and personal needs.
  • Onsite work arrangement with an expectation of primarily working from an HPE office.

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About HPE

10,000+ employees

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) builds enterprise IT infrastructure and services, including servers, storage, networking (Aruba), and hybrid edge-to-cloud platforms like HPE GreenLake for businesses and public-sector organizations. Formed in 2015 after Hewlett-Packard’s split, HPE is headquartered in Houston, Texas and trades on the NYSE. It sells hardware, software, and subscription-based managed cloud services to help customers run workloads across data centers, colocation, and public clouds.

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