Cloud Developer - Networking

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) invites applications for the Cloud Developer - Networking role, onsite in India. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing the Data Plane of SDN for VM Essentials in highly scalable, enterprise private cloud architectures.

You will work with EVPN, VLAN, VXLAN, MPLS, and related forwarding technologies to deliver high-performance networking. The ideal candidate has strong C/C++ software design skills, 5+ years in networking, and hands-on

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years in network software development or related field.
• Experience with EVPN/VXLAN/L2/L3 routing and data plane architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop the HPE SDN Data Plane for VM Essentials.
• Define interfaces across configuration, control, and data planes.
• Work on state synchronization, reconciliation, and recovery mechanisms.
• Extend EVPN, VLAN, VXLAN, MPLS and related technologies.
• Optimize packet processing with DPDK and Linux networking.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable networking features.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Networking design

Linux networking

BGP/EVPN

Kubernetes

EBPF

SR-MPLS

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS

Tools

DPDK

XMPP

NetConf

SR-IOV

Job description

Cloud Developer - Networking

This 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:

In the HPE Hybrid Cloud, we lead the innovation agenda and technology roadmap for all of HPE. This includes managing the design, development, and product portfolio of our next-generation cloud platform, Green Lake. Working with customers, we help them reimagine their information technology needs to deliver a simple, consumable solution that helps them drive their business results. Join us redefine what’s next for you. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Networking Specialist to join our team focused on software solutions for our VM Essentials customers. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing Data Plane layer of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) enhancements to VM Essentials customers in highly scalable, enterprise private cloud-based, distributed architectures.

What you’ll do:

• Design, and development of the HPE SDN Data Plane for VM Essentials, covering Layer 2/3 networking, distributed routing and switching, overlays, tunneling, and high-performance packet forwarding.
• Define scalable interfaces and programming models across configuration, control, and data planes for routes, next hops, interfaces, VRFs, bridge domains, MAC/IP entries, tunnels, multicast state, and related forwarding objects.
• Design state synchronization, reconciliation, reconnect, warm-restart, upgrade, and recovery mechanisms that preserve forwarding consistency and minimize traffic disruption.
• Extend EVPN, VLAN, VXLAN, MPLS, IPv4/IPv6, bridging, MAC/IP learning, integrated routing and bridging, multi-homing, BUM forwarding, and overlay/underlay capabilities.
• Optimize packet processing with DPDK, Linux networking, SR--IOV, hardware acceleration and interfaces such as veth, virtio, vhost-user, and TAP/TUN.
• Improve throughput, latency, CPU and memory efficiency, and route, MAC, flow, tunnel, and compute-node scale.
• Root-cause analysis across configuration, control, and data planes for forwarding failures, stale state, race conditions, crashes, memory issues, and performance regressions.
• Partner with routing, virtualization, compute, cloud-platform, product, QA, systems engineering, and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable and scalable capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams (Configuration and Control path) to ensure seamless integration.
• Opportunity to work with some of the networking gurus who have developed and authored cutting-edge solutions for ever evolving access network.

What you need to bring:

• Bachelor’s OR master’s degree in computer-science or related field.
• Excellent network software design capabilities, C/C++ programming, debugging skills and a strong systems programming background 5+ years of experience in developing new features and bug fixing on complex products in networking domain.
• Knowledge of L2 (EVPN, VLAN, VXLAN) and L3 (eBGP, iBGP, MP-BGP, MPLS) Experience with routing, DPDK and Kernel Forwarding Plane, Tunnel using MPLSoUDP, MPLSoGRE and VxLan Experience with XMPP, BGP, iBGP and NetConf Knowledge of EBPF Experience in debugging networking problems in complex systems involving multiple process/thread interactions including, but not limited to analysing crashes, scaling and performance issues, packet loss, memory leaks and memory corruption
• Proactive mindset and strong willingness to learn in addition to ability to think out of the box and adopt new software development tools and technologies Understanding of network architecture of enterprise cloud and experience in deploying applications in Kubernetes environment is a plus.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus: SmartNICs, DPUs, NVIDIA BlueField/DOCA, and hardware forwarding offload. Segment Routing, SR-MPLS, SRV6, MPLS Layer 2/3 VPNs, BFD, PIC, TI-LFA, and fast convergence. Network telemetry, packet tracing, automated scale and performance testing, Cloud Architectures, Distributed Computing, Micro-Services Fluency, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

What We Can Offer You:

• Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have - whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.

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