Lead Software Engineer – Network Management & Observability
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (company site, opens in a new tab)8–12 yrsTelanganaOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 28–45 LPA
Posted 16h ago
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Job description
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About This Role
- Own design, development, and maintenance of Network Topology Management (NTM) systems focusing on accuracy, reliability, and scalability.
- Build and optimize network topology discovery and processing pipelines for Layer 2 and Layer 3 relationships, including debugging and resolving topology defects.
- Collaborate across backend, frontend, network domain, SRE, and product teams to enhance network configuration management, operational tooling, user workflows, and production readiness.
Minimum Requirements
- 8-12+ years of software engineering experience in scalable enterprise systems.
- Strong proficiency in Java programming including core fundamentals, object-oriented design, and microservices architecture.
- Core networking knowledge including L2/L3 concepts (VLANs, Routing), gateway protocols (BGP), secure tunnels (IPsec, GRE), and SNMP domain skills with CLI experience on network devices (Arista EOS, Cisco NXOS/IOS/XE, Juniper Junos, Aruba).
- Onsite work requirement at HPE office; experience with tools like Docker, Containerlab, Netlab; production debugging and AI-First SDLC skills.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced software engineer with deep domain expertise in network topology, configuration management, and observability in large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong operational mindset with demonstrated success in enhancing reliability, scalability, and maintainability of network management products in enterprise/cloud environments.
- Collaborative developer familiar with backend and frontend technologies, network device OS, and tools for network simulation and diagnostics, capable of cross-team integration and customer-focused solution delivery.