Principal Software Engineer (Storage)

Location: Hybrid, with an average of 2 days per week at an HPE office in Durham, North Carolina, or Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Salary: Annual base salary of USD 165,500–313,500 in Colorado or USD 157,000–361,000 in North Carolina; variable incentives may also be offered.

Company

hirify.global is a global edge-to-cloud company developing solutions that connect, protect, analyze, and manage data and applications from edge to cloud.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and own Go microservices and Kubernetes controllers/operators for cluster networking, network infrastructure management, and software distribution.
• Develop host-level Linux networking software for interface configuration, addressing, routing, and highly available IPv4 and IPv6 client access.
• Automate data-center switch configuration and lifecycle management, including safe and recoverable firmware upgrades.
• Build services that package, store, and distribute software and container images for cluster installation and upgrades.
• Design highly available distributed services that remain correct through node failures, restarts, and partial upgrades; develop unit, integration, system, and fault-injection tests.
• Review designs and code, troubleshoot customer escalations and field issues, collaborate with storage, platform, and cloud teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• Typically 10+ years of production software development experience, including significant experience with distributed or infrastructure systems.
• Strong experience with a systems language such as Go, C/C++, or Java, including concurrency and testable design, with willingness to develop primarily in Go.
• Hands-on Kubernetes development experience, including controllers/operators and custom resources.
• Solid Linux IP networking knowledge covering TCP/IP, routing, VLANs, and IPv6, with hands-on network troubleshooting experience.
• Experience designing distributed, highly available systems that tolerate partial failures.
• Proficiency in Bash for tooling, automation, and system setup.
• Excellent analytical, debugging, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with enterprise storage systems or storage appliances and professional Go development experience.
• Experience with software packaging, distribution, and upgrades, including container images, registries, rolling updates, on-premises delivery, or air-gapped environments.
• Experience automating data-center network switches and orchestrating firmware or OS upgrades for network devices or appliances.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes networking internals such as CNI.
• Experience with RPC frameworks such as gRPC, TLS, Linux system services, and Python for test automation.
• Experience with observability, including Prometheus metrics and structured logging, and supporting production systems in the field.
• Effective use of AI-assisted development tools with strong engineering judgment when reviewing and validating their output.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with regular access to an HPE office in one of the listed United States locations.
• Health, wellbeing, financial, and emotional support benefits for employees and their loved ones.
• Personal and professional development programs supporting career growth and knowledge expertise.
• Inclusive workplace committed to accessibility and accommodation for qualified applicants with disabilities.