Principal Systems/Software Engineer Cloud & On-Premise Software Development

Principal Systems/Software Engineer provides technical leadership for end-to-end development of core software modules across cloud-native and on-premises security management components.

Responsibilities

• Own multiple core software modules end-to-end for the product, including solving technical challenges in fast-paced development and debugging environments.
• Lead, mentor, and grow junior engineering talent within the team.
• Develop organization-wide software architecture and development methodologies across multiple platforms and organizations within the Global Business Unit.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships to align with technology roadmap and business value.
• Create plans to integrate and update technologies into the agreed architecture.
• Review and evaluate designs and project activities against development guidelines and standards; provide actionable feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
• Apply domain expertise and business acumen to influence decisions made by technical leadership, outsourced development partners, and relevant industry standards groups.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff to model strong software systems design and development innovation and excellence.

Requirements

• Experience building cloud products with a microservices architecture.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud applications and technologies.
• Excellent analytical skills, problem solving, and software debugging experience.
• Experience designing and developing software system design tools and languages.
• Experience with overall architecture for software systems supporting products and solutions.
• Ability to design and integrate software systems running on multiple platform types into a unified architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-geography, globally distributed engineering teams, collaborating across time zones and cultures.
• Drive high-quality delivery by writing robust unit tests, improving code coverage via automation, validating functionality, and documenting and executing functional test cases prior to QA handoff.
• Extensive hands-on experience across several listed technology areas, with the ability to quickly adapt to adjacent domains.
• History of innovation with multiple patents or deployed solutions in software design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including mastery of English and the local language.
• Ability to communicate product architectures and design proposals and negotiate options with business unit and executive levels.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Typically 10+ years of experience.

Role Overview

• Security Director Cloud (SD Cloud): a cloud-native Security Management Platform delivering centralized management, monitoring, policy administration, and automation for Juniper SRX Firewalls, vSRX, Secure Edge, and hybrid cloud security environments.
• Enables consistent management of security policies across on-premises, cloud, and remote locations through a single web interface.
• Positions SD Cloud as HPE/Juniper management portal for SASE, supporting unified policy management, Zero Trust, Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), threat visibility, analytics, automation, and API-driven integrations.
• Security Director (On-Prem): on-premises version of the same security management platform.
• Centrally manages SRX and vSRX firewalls, providing policy lifecycle management, monitoring, configuration, logging, and automation via a web-based interface.
• Successor to Junos Space Security Director with similar operational capabilities for organizations requiring local deployment.

Core Technologies

• Go (1.24+)
• Java (Spring Boot / Spring Framework, Jakarta EE)
• PostgreSQL (or equivalent DB) and Elastic Search
• gRPC, Protocol buffers, REST, OpenAPI/Swagger

Cloud Technologies

• Apache Kafka (Confluent, Sarama) and Redis-based queues
• Docker, Kubernetes, Kubernetes client libraries
• Prometheus, distributed tracing, structured logging (SLF4J/Logback)
• Load balancer like Ambassador (or equivalent)

Other Technologies

• Bazel, Maven, Helm
• OAuth2, SAML, JWT
• Jenkins CI/CD

Nice to Have

• Security domain experience.
• Experience in Network Management Systems development.
• Exposure to building software platforms consumed by applications.

Hybrid Work Requirement

• Hybrid role with an average requirement to work 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Location

• San Juan, PR (Hybrid)

Benefits

• Relocation support is provided for eligible candidates.
• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing for team members and their loved ones.

Personal & Professional Development

• Career development programs for knowledge experts or cross-division skill growth.

Inclusion

• Unconditionally inclusive work approach that celebrates individual uniqueness.
• Flexibility to manage work and personal needs.

Health & Wellbeing

• Benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.