Software Principal Engineer
Dell Technologies1 day ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and execute system and solution-level validation by translating requirements, architecture documents, and specifications into comprehensive test plans and cases.
- Validate functional, performance, resiliency, interoperability, and end-to-end networking and compute scenarios at multidimensional and rack-scale deployments.
- Evaluate RoCE and lossless-fabric behavior under congestion, including PFC, ECN, link-level retransmission, and retransmits.
- Track link health across test runs and releases using error counters, link flaps, FEC trends, and CRC trends.
- Build and improve Python and SpyTest automation and AI agents to increase test execution efficiency, CI/CD acceleration, and test coverage.
- Analyze logs, telemetry, packet captures, and system behavior to identify root causes, close field escapes, and drive issue triage and resolution.
Requirements
- Experience with system testing and end-to-end validation of AI, data center, and enterprise networking solutions at multidimensional scale.
- Knowledge of VXLAN-EVPN, MLAG, EVPN-MH, ECMP, VRF, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, SRv6, BFD, VLAN, LACP, LLDP, STP, multicast, DHCP, DNS, NTP, LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+, and 802.1X.
- Knowledge of RoCE, QoS, DCB, PFC, ECN, lossless Ethernet, link-level retransmission, latency, performance, resiliency, and collective-communication traffic on GPU clusters.
- Strong Python and test automation skills, including automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, telemetry and northbound interfaces, packet analysis, and traffic-generator testing such as IXIA.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, CSE, ECE, EEE, IT, Computer Networks, Cloud Computing, or an equivalent field.
- Hands-on SpyTest and network test automation experience, familiarity with server and storage environments, and data analysis skills using SQL and pandas are desirable.
- Experience with AI agents and AI-assisted workflows using tools such as Claude, Devin, and GitHub Copilot is desirable.
- Exposure to emerging scale-up fabric standards such as UALink and Ultra Ethernet is desirable.
Benefits
- The role is based in Chennai, India, on the System Test Engineering Team.
- Application closing date: 16/11/2026.
About Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies builds PCs, monitors, and peripherals for consumers and enterprises, and provides servers, storage, networking, and edge solutions for data centers. It sells hardware, software, and support services through direct, channel, and online models to organizations of all sizes and the public sector. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, it includes the former EMC storage business and operates globally across client computing and infrastructure markets.