Principal Software Engineer

HPE Aruba Networking; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

HPE Aruba Networking in Bengaluru offers a hybrid role for a Principal Software Engineer with strong architectural and systems design expertise. You will shape the technical vision, design scalable, secure systems, and lead architectural decisions across product lines.

You will mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and collaborate with product managers, security teams, and platform engineers to deliver aligned, high-quality solutions in a fast-paced, edge-to-cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/IS or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering with architectural ownership.
• Strong proficiency with .NET Core and system design.
• Experience with SOAR components and control planes.
• API design across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC.

Responsibilities

• Design and build system services with focus on runtime behavior and performance.
• Implement APIs across REST/GraphQL/gRPC with consistent patterns.
• Develop and maintain management/control-plane components.
• Build scalable, secure architectures for policy management and orchestration.
• Deploy and operate in Docker/Kubernetes environments.

Skills

Architectural ownership

Distributed systems

Domain-driven design

REST/GraphQL/gRPC APIs

.NET Core

Docker

Kubernetes

Security & resilience

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems

Tools

.NET Core

Kafka

Kinesis

Pub/Sub

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week 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

Aruba is an HPE Company, and a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. Helping some of the largest companies in the world modernize their networks to meet the demands of a digital future, Aruba is redefining the “Intelligent Edge” – and creating new customer experiences across intelligent spaces and digital workspaces. Join us redefine what’s next for you.

About The Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer with strong architectural and systems design expertise to drive the evolution of our next-generation platform. You will shape the technical vision, design scalable and secure systems, and lead architectural decisions that influence multiple product lines.

What You’ll Do

Engineering & Delivery

• Design and build system services using modern engineering practices, with a deep understanding of runtime behavior, concurrency, messaging, and performance patterns.
• Implement APIs across multiple styles and standards (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.), ensuring consistent patterns and a maintainable service ecosystem.
• Develop and maintain management/control-plane components that support complex domain and containment logic.
• Build reliable, well-modeled systems that support policy management, orchestration workflows, and stateful service interactions.
• Deploy, operate, and optimize software in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ensure engineering excellence through automated testing, performance tuning, and robust error‑handling strategies.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a senior technical leader and mentor within the engineering team.
• Lead design reviews, architecture discussions, and cross-team engineering initiatives.
• Work closely with product managers, security teams, and platform engineers to deliver aligned and scalable solutions.
• Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and long‑term implications to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Help shape engineering culture by promoting high standards for code quality, documentation, and system maintainability.

What You Need To Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant architectural ownership, modeling, domain-driven design, and building distributed systems.
• Strong engineering proficiency with .NET Core (deep understanding of internals, patterns, application architecture).
• Experience developing and maintaining SOAR system components and control planes.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs across multiple technologies (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.).
• Experience with streaming/event technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, etc).
• Experience building secure, resilient systems with strong attention to failure modes and operational readiness.
• Designing and integrating software systems running on multiple platform types into the overall architecture.

Nice to Have

• Experience with containment models in security platforms (e.g., policy‑driven containment workflows).
• Background working with security products, endpoint or network security, or secure system design.
• Exposure to UI frameworks or front‑end integration patterns.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure‑as‑code, or other DevOps tooling.
• Experience designing systems for high‑scale or regulated environments.

Additional Skills

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation, User Experience (UX)

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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