Software Principal Engineer
Dell Technologies3 days ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop validation strategies, release test plans, and test cases for maintenance releases, hotfixes, feature backports, customer-critical fixes, defect fixes, and architecture changes.
- Build Python and SpyTest automation for change-impact analysis, defect triage, automated quality gates, and CI/CD-driven validation.
- Validate functional, interoperability, scale, performance, resiliency, and customer deployment scenarios across network switch products.
- Test RoCE and lossless Ethernet under congestion, including QoS, PFC, ECN, link-level retransmission, and GPU-cluster collective traffic.
- Analyze logs, telemetry, packet captures, and system behavior to identify root causes, resolve complex issues, and reduce field escapes.
Requirements
- Experience with system testing, release validation, and end-to-end verification of AI, data center, or enterprise networking solutions.
- Experience troubleshooting complex scale-up, scale-across, scale-out, and rack-scale networking and compute deployments.
- Knowledge of VXLAN-EVPN, MLAG, EVPN-MH, ECMP, VRF, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, SRv6, BFD, VLAN, LACP, LLDP, STP, IGMP, PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, MLD, DHCP, DNS, NTP, LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+, and 802.1X.
- Strong Python and test automation skills, including CI/CD validation pipelines, automated quality gates, scalable test frameworks, telemetry and northbound interfaces, and traffic generator testing such as IXIA.
- Experience validating RoCE, QoS, DCB, PFC/ECN, lossless Ethernet, link-level retransmission, latency, performance, and collective traffic on GPU clusters.
- 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 SDD/TDD, server and storage environments, SBOM, and CVE management are desirable.
- Experience with AI agents and AI-assisted workflows using tools such as Claude, Devin, or GitHub Copilot is desirable.
Benefits
- Application closing date: 30 November 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.