Senior Systems Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Durham, NC

1d • $120,500 - $276,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

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: Work on challenging, system-level problems that directly impact product quality and customer experience. Build software that matters alongside experienced engineers across software, firmware, and hardware domains. Grow into broader technical leadership while staying deeply hands-on and leverage and advance industry-leading AI tool chains. We are looking for a Senior Systems Software Engineer who will thrive on building software that solves complex, system-level problems. This role focuses on designing and developing production-quality software that drives validation, analysis, and system understanding for enterprise storage systems, at scale, under stress, and in real-world environments. This is not a test role. The ideal candidate works across the stack, partners closely with firmware, hardware, and systems teams, and plays a key role in shaping both technical direction and engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (Master's or higher preferred)
• 6+ years of experience designing and developing software for complex systems
• Strong programming skills in languages such as C or C++
• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python
• A solid foundation in operating systems concepts, concurrency, and system interactions
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex, cross-layer issues
• Experience delivering well-designed, maintainable software
• Experience with storage systems, distributed systems, or low-level system behavior (drivers, OS internals, kernel interactions) is a plus

Nice To Haves

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across teams
• Ability to take ownership of complex problem areas and drive them to resolution
• Demonstrated ability to influence design and architecture beyond immediate deliverables
• Familiarity with storage or networking protocols such as SCSI, iSCSI, NVMe, or Fibre Channel
• Experience with performance analysis, system characterization, or large-scale infrastructure
• Experience building tools or platforms used by other engineers
• Familiarity with Artificial Intelligence tool chains

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust software, tools, and frameworks that enable validation and analysis of complex storage systems
• Develop solutions that exercise systems in realistic scenarios to uncover edge cases, performance limits, and reliability opportunities
• Debug and resolve challenging issues that span multiple layers, including application, OS, driver, and hardware interactions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system design, observability, and overall product quality
• Lead technical efforts within projects, such as driving design discussions, influencing decisions, and ensuring high-quality execution
• Contribute to the evolution of internal tooling, frameworks, and development practices, especially ones accelerating through AI integration
• Mentor and guide other engineers through hands-on support, code reviews, and technical coaching

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior