Software Engineering Manager - Platform Software

Job Title : Sr Manager - Platform Software, Device Drivers, System Bring-Up

Experience : 12+ Years

Location : Bangalore

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 :

The candidate will be part of a platform software team that delivers high speed, feature rich, energy efficient, cutting edge routing platform for tier 1 cloud customers, service providers and large enterprises. The candidate will be leading a high performance and experienced software development team of 15+ engineers

What you'll do :

The candidate will be leading and managing a team of 12+ platform engineers.

The candidate should have good technical knowledge in networking / platform domain to lead the team. Knowledge of building large complex platform is highly desirable.

Experience in leading a team working on high speed serial links, board bring up, chassis and fabric management, interface technologies like 25G / 100G / 400G, optics will be a plus

The candidate will be working on projects starting from conception, design, development and productization of hardware and software for the network platforms. Candidate will be working closely with product management and other cross-functional teams like hardware, ASIC, system testing, solution testing, manufacturing teams.

The candidate should be able to come up with the resource requirement (proto, hardware, software, headcount) project schedule for delivering complex cross functional projects.

The candidate should have project management skills to manage and monitor progress for projects and mitigate risk in a proactive manner. The candidate will be responsible for timely delivery of projects.

The candidate should be championing quality within and outside the team.

The candidate should be interacting with vendors on need basis.

The candidate should be leading the team in case of customer escalations and manage customer expectation.

The candidate should be a good team player and work closely with other teams towards success of the project.

The candidate should have good people management skills for managing and nurturing a high performing team.

What you need to bring :

The candidate should be holding BS / MS degree and should have 12+ years work experience with at least 5 years of experience in networking area.

Experience in developing high performance modular platforms is highly desirable.

5+ years of experience Leading / Managing high-performance team.

Development experience on networking products

Good understanding of hardware-level details for Optics, PCIe, SPI, I2C, Retimers, FPGA, CPLD, MDIO, Flash Driver

Proficiency with device drivers, system bring-up, FreeBSD / Linux internals.

Understanding of Ethernet, OTN, SONET, etc. technologies.

Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Strong in C, C++ programming, OO analysis & design, data structures, and system debugging skills.

Prior software development experience on networking products.

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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