Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

  

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

Aruba is an HPE Company, and a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. Helping some the largest companies in the world modernize their networks to meet the demands of a digital future, Aruba is redefining the “Intelligent Edge” – and creating new customer experiences across intelligent spaces and digital workspaces. Join us redefine what’s next for you.

About HPE Networking, SASE & Security

HPE Networking Business Unit, powered by Aruba Networks, Juniper Networks and Axis Security portfolios, delivers secure, AI-driven networking solutions that connect users, devices, applications, and data across campus, branch, data center, WAN and cloud environments. HPE Networking BU enables organizations to modernize infrastructure through on-prem, hybrid and cloud-native management, automation, AIOps-driven operations, and high-performance wired, wireless, routing, and switching and security solutions, while supporting seamless hybrid work experiences with scalability, resiliency, and operational simplicity.

HPE Networking BU’s SASE and Security Group develops solutions that provide a unified, cloud-delivered architecture that combines networking and security capabilities for the modern edge-to-cloud enterprise. The portfolio integrates SD-WAN, Secure Service Edge (SSE), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), CASB, Secure Routing, Unified Endpoint Client and AI-Native network operations capabilities to deliver secure and optimized access for users regardless of location.

Our technologies help enterprises reduce complexity, improve operational efficiency, strengthen cyber resilience, and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. By leveraging AI-powered insights, centralized policy enforcement, intelligent network automation, and identity-based security, HPE delivers comprehensive edge-to-cloud networking and security solutions that enable secure, agile, and future-ready digital infrastructure for enterprises worldwide.

Role Overview and Summary

We are looking for a talented Senior Manager (Software Engineering) with a proven track record to join our engineering team. In this role, you will directly lead a team of software developers responsible for building, scaling, and securing high-performance HPE EdgeConnect appliances for the SASE (SD-WAN & Security) segment. This role requires a balance of deep technical management (C programming, Linux systems, hardware/virtual form factors) and people leadership to deliver enterprise-grade networking and security applications.

What you’ll do:

Key Responsibilities

• Own up end to end software development life cycle for the appliance software, ensuring timely, high-quality releases across both physical hardware and virtual platforms
• Handle the headcount efficiently by organizing and optimizing team structures, capacity planning and allocation of resources for projects consistent with product roadmap and priorities
• Drive hiring to attract talented systems, networking and security developers
• Nurture a strong engineering culture focused on rigorous code reviews, automated testing, continuous integration and building secure software
• Partner closely with product management, peer engineering teams, SQA, DevOps and Escalations teams to drive product development with high-quality and ensure customer success
• Drive system level and code level optimizations to maximize appliance data plane throughput, ensuring efficient resource utilization during line-rate packet processing with security inspection
• Drive adoption of AI technologies across customer-facing SASE features, the software development process, automated testing and root cause analysis for complex software defects

What you need to bring:

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically, 15-20 years of software engineering experience with at least 5+ years of direct people management experience leading engineering teams
• Deep technical background in C programming and Linux systems programming with a proven track record in low-latency data path and/or networking/security applications
• Strong software development experience in one or more domains, including SD-WAN, Routing, WAN Optimization, Firewall, NGFW, IDS/IPS, ZTNA, Web Filtering, Proxy applications (SSL, TCP, DNS), Application Classification, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Policy based routing and High Availability
• Proven track record of managing complex software projects in a high-velocity environment
• Familiarity with leveraging AI technologies to drive both customer-facing features in networking products/services and engineering productivity  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

Manager_2

    

    

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

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