HPE
Principal Software Test Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation
$172K–$349K
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Experience
- Preferred: 12+ years of industry experience.
About the job
Leads customer-solution validation and automation for large-scale networking and distributed software, improving quality, reliability, and customer outcomes.
What you'll do
- Develop and lead validation strategies for customer deployments and complex networking solutions; communicate findings and risks to stakeholders.
- Architect and evolve scalable test automation, continuous validation practices, and quality engineering methods.
- Lead system-level debugging and root-cause investigations, while providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers.
What they ask for
- Expert programming in Python, Go, or C++, with deep proficiency in at least one.
- Extensive experience building automation frameworks and integrating large-scale automated testing into CI/CD.
- Strong Linux/UNIX and networking knowledge; extensive distributed-systems validation and hands-on multi-vendor networking experience.
- Deep system-level testing expertise, including performance, resiliency, interoperability, scale, fault recovery, and complex troubleshooting.
Nice to have
- Advanced networking expertise; experience with network operating systems, cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, or JUNOS; certifications such as JNCIA or CCIA.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools; innovation through patents, publications, standards, or architectural leadership.
Pay
USD 172,000 - 349,000 (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, C++, Linux/UNIX, CI/CD, Ixia, Spirent, JUNOS
AI focus
Drive AI-assisted engineering practices; preferred experience applying AI tools to automation development, test generation, diagnostics, failure analysis, and productivity improvements.
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