Senior Distinguished Technologist
$204,000–$434,000 year
HybridRoseville, California, United States
Job Summary
Drive technology strategy, architecture, and roadmap development for foundational storage platform technologies enabling multiple products across the HPE Storage portfolio. Define and influence system architectures spanning embedded software, platform services, hardware abstraction, and storage infrastructure technologies. Lead technical innovation across complex hardware and software ecosystems, identifying opportunities to unify capabilities and accelerate adoption of new technologies. Partner with senior engineering leaders to solve highly complex system-level challenges involving storage, networking, virtualization, and distributed infrastructure platforms. Serve as a technical authority both internally and externally, representing HPE in industry forums, technology partnerships, and standards-related engagements. Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, fostering technical excellence and strengthening HPE's engineering leadership community. This role is hybrid with an expectation of working on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
Required Qualifications
- Deep expertise in enterprise storage systems, infrastructure platforms, embedded systems architecture, or closely related domains
- Extensive experience designing and architecting software systems that interact closely with hardware, including platform abstraction layers, data path technologies, and system infrastructure services
- Deep systems software expertise across Linux, hypervisors, storage protocols, user-space storage stacks, kernel/platform code, and low-level hardware/software integration
- Deep experience with modern storage and connectivity technologies such as NVMe, PCI Express (PCIe), Ethernet, Fibre Channel, storage virtualization, media virtualization, or related technologies
- Proven ability to architect solutions that span hardware, firmware, operating systems, and software stacks
- Demonstrated success driving cross-organizational technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions across multiple business units and product teams
- Recognized technical authority with a track record of innovation, patents, publications, industry participation, or development of broadly deployed solutions
- Understanding of industry standards and technology ecosystems relevant to enterprise infrastructure, storage, networking, or systems architecture
- Outstanding systems-thinking, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to translate complex technical challenges into scalable platform solutions
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills with demonstrated success engaging senior executives, distinguished engineers, industry partners, and customers
- Experience spanning hardware and software architecture with the ability to design solutions across the full technology stack, from embedded platforms and operating systems through higher-level software services and infrastructure capabilities
- Hands-on experience with systems programming languages such as C, C++, Rust, Python, Go, etc with the ability to prototype, evaluate, and guide implementation of complex storage and infrastructure software
- Hybrid work arrangement with an expectation of working on average 2 days per week from an HPE office
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