Senior Storage Software Engineer (Go/Kubernetes) – Hybrid

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Fort Collins (CO); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 314,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Personal & Professional Development

Unconditional Inclusion

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Storage) to design and build the Kubernetes-based control plane software for the Alletra storage product. The role is hybrid, requiring you to work on average two days per week from an HPE office, and focuses on Go microservices, controllers, and host networking daemons across Linux and Kubernetes.

You will mentor teammates, review designs, and contribute to testing, performance, and reliability in distributed systems, with a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• Typically 10+ years of experience developing production software, including distributed or infrastructure systems.
• Strong programming in a systems language (Go, C/C++, Java) with concurrency and testable design; willingness to focus on Go.
• Hands-on Kubernetes development experience, controllers/operators and custom resources.
• Solid Linux IP networking knowledge and practical troubleshooting skills.
• Experience designing distributed, highly available systems tolerant of partial failures.
• Shell scripting (Bash) for tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops and owns Go microservices and Kubernetes controllers/operators for cluster networking and software distribution.
• Develops host-level Linux networking software for IPv4/IPv6 access.
• Automates configuration and lifecycle management of data-center switches and firmware upgrades.
• Packages, stores and distributes software and container images for cluster installs and upgrades.
• Ensures highly available services remain correct through node failures and partial upgrades.
• Reviews designs and code for correctness, failure handling and testability; provides feedback.
• Develops automated unit, integration and system tests, including fault-injection testing.
• Troubleshoots escalations across Kubernetes, Linux networking and data-center infrastructure.

Skills

Go

C/C++

Java

Kubernetes

Linux networking

Bash

Distributed systems

Debugging

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

gRPC

TLS

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Storage) to design and build the Kubernetes-based control plane software for the Alletra storage product. The role is hybrid, requiring you to work on average two days per week from an HPE office, and focuses on Go microservices, controllers, and host networking daemons across Linux and Kubernetes.

You will mentor teammates, review designs, and contribute to testing, performance, and reliability in distributed systems, with a