Senior Principal Engineer Storage Data path

Bengaluru April 15, 2026 Full Time
In the HPE Hybrid Cloud, we lead the innovation agenda and technology roadmap for all of HPE. This includes managing the design, development, and product portfolio of our next-generation cloud platform, Green Lake. Working with customers, we help them reimagine their information technology needs to deliver a simple, consumable solution that helps them drive their business results. Join us redefine what s next for you.
Job Family Definition:
Designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for software enhancements and new products. Develops software including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases and Internet-related tools. Determines hardware compatibility and/or influences hardware design.
Management Level Definition:
Contributions have substantial technical impact on a significant HPE product/project, or a strategic/architectural direction. Go-to creator and innovator for critical business challenges and opportunities. Substantial, unique contributions provide long-lasting, recurring benefits like time-to-market improvements, cost reductions, or satisfying future and current unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology areas. Provides technical leadership to the business for significant project/program work. Leads and connects others across functions to unite around a common goal. Actively mentors others and contributes to the HPE technical community.
What youll do:
  • Develops organization-wide architectures, strategies, and methodologies for software systems design and development across multiple platforms and organizations within the Global Business Unit.
  • Identifies and makes informed recommendations regarding new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.
  • Reviews, evaluates, and influences designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards.
  • End-to-End Ownership and Technical Leadership
  • Anticipate bottlenecks and architect innovative solutions
  • Drive best practices and operational excellence both at the team and organizational level
  • Provides tangible solutions that improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
  • Contributes to domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups.
  • Brings creativity and innovation to the organization.
  • Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced team members to set an example of software systems design and development innovation and excellence; helps mentor career growth.
  • Acts as an internal authority on software systems design, sought out for consulting across organizations or Business Units.
  • Contributes to the external technical community through whitepapers, patents, or other significant innovations.
What you need to bring:
  • Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
  • 15+ years of experience in a product development environment on storage/system engineering
  • Track record of delivering V1 products (or early-stage product development) in modern storage technologies (Object/File storage for modern AI use-cases, Object storage, cloud storage)
  • Evidence of advancing storage technologies new segment, industry standards/conference contributions
  • Concurrently driving technology development/delivery of multiple scrum teams
  • A track record of establishing and assuring adherence to performance requirements, work plans, and schedules for significant engineering initiatives
  • Excellent communications and interpersonal skills
Knowledge and Skills:
  • Experience architecting, designing, and developing innovative software system design tools and languages.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience in leading overall architecture of software systems for products and solutions.
  • Designing and integrating efficient and scalable software systems running on multiple platform types into overall architecture.
  • Evaluating and selecting forms and processes for software systems testing and methodology, including writing and execution of test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools with customer mindset.
  • History of innovation with multiple patents or deployed solutions in the field of software design.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local languages, with an excellent ability to communicate nuanced concepts and influence in written and oral communication with a broad vocabulary.
  • Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals, and negotiate and influence options at business unit and executive levels.
Additional Skills:
Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation, User Experience (UX)
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