Principal Software Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation

Principal Software Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution ValidationThis role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work 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:

What you’ll do:

Solution Validation & Customer Engagement

• Understand customer deployments, business requirements, architectures, and large-scale operational environments to develop comprehensive validation strategies.
• Lead validation efforts for customer solutions and complex networking deployments.
• Collaborate with customers, field engineers, solution architects, sales engineers, and services teams to validate real-world networking solutions and operational readiness.
• Participate in and influence technical design workshops, architecture reviews, and strategic planning discussions to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and serviceability.
• Translate customer requirements into repeatable, solution-focused validation frameworks.
• Present technical findings, risk assessments, quality recommendations, and executive-level updates to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives that improve customer outcomes and product quality.

Automation & Quality Engineering

• Contribute to and help drive automation strategy across products, programs, and engineering teams.
• Architect, develop, and evolve scalable automation frameworks supporting functional, integration, system, resiliency, scale, performance, and solution validation.
• Establish engineering best practices and standards for continuous validation through CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive innovation in automation infrastructure, tooling, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Drive organization-wide adoption of quality engineering methodologies that improve time-to-market and engineering productivity.
• Identify opportunities to simplify validation workflows and reduce operational costs through automation.

System-Level Testing & Debugging

• Validate distributed, multi-component software and networking platforms at scale.
• Utilize logs, metrics, traces, telemetry, observability platforms, and diagnostic frameworks to troubleshoot complex failures.
• Drive root-cause investigations spanning multiple teams and technology domains.
• Differentiate product defects from infrastructure, automation, and environmental issues.
• Influence architecture and design decisions to improve product testability, diagnosability, and operational excellence.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership for significant project and program initiatives.
• Serve as a recognized internal authority for solution validation, automation, and quality engineering.
• Lead and connect engineering teams across functions to align around common quality objectives.
• Drive quality-first engineering practices throughout the development lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to technical innovation through patents, white papers, standards participation, publications, and architectural proposals.
• Contribute to long-term technical capabilities that create recurring business value and customer impact.

Required Qualifications

Software Engineering & Automation

• Expert-level programming expertise in Python, Go, or C++, with deep proficiency in at least one language.
• Extensive experience designing and building automation platforms, frameworks, and quality engineering ecosystems.
• Experience integrating large-scale automated testing into CI/CD environments.
• Proven experience delivering impactful automation initiatives.

Systems & Networking

• Strong understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems, networking, processes, memory management, and system internal…