Principal Cloud Developer - Virtualization

Principal Cloud Developer - Virtualization

Principal Cloud Developer - Virtualization

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

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.

Product Overview

VM Essentials (VME) is a next-generation virtualization platform that enables customers to provision and manage KVM-based HVM and VMware ESXi virtual machines through a single, intuitive management interface.

The solution includes an enhanced KVM-based HVM hypervisor with enterprise-grade cluster management capabilities such as high availability, live migration, distributed workload placement, integrated data protection, secure hardening, and external storage support. VME is designed to deliver a scalable, resilient, and secure virtualization experience for enterprise workloads.

Role Overview

As a Principal Developer – Virtualization, you will play a key technical leadership role in the architecture, design, and development of VM Essentials. You will drive critical product capabilities end-to-end while collaborating closely with global engineering teams, partners, and customers. This role requires deep expertise in virtualization and distributed systems, along with the ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers across teams.

What you’ll do:

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver high-quality, reliable, and scalable product features for enterprise virtualization platforms.
• Provide technical leadership across the architecture, design, implementation, and lifecycle management of VM Essentials (VME).
• Collaborate closely with global engineering teams, partners, and customers to define requirements, resolve complex issues, and drive product adoption.
• Identify and evaluate new technology innovations; assess alignment with product roadmap and business goals, and drive their integration into the system architecture.
• Review designs and project deliverables for compliance with engineering standards and best practices; provide actionable feedback to improve quality, performance, and resiliency.
• Act as a technical mentor and role model, setting a high bar for software design, development excellence, and engineering rigor.

What you need to bring:

Education & Experience

• BE / ME in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a closely related discipline.
• 12–15 years of industry experience, with significant hands-on experience in systems software and virtualization platforms.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Strong experience in the virtualization ecosystem, preferably with KVM-based solutions.
• Deep expertise in Linux OS internals, clustering technologies (e.g., Corosync, Pacemaker), and file systems.
• Strong programming skills with Java, Gradle, Groovy or similar technologies
• Development Exposure in C/C++ & Linux Driver
• Solid understanding of storage technologies and networking in enterprise environments.
• Proven expertise in software systems design, distributed architecture, and integration across heterogeneous platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly.
• Ability to communicate architectural decisions and design trade-offs effectively at engineering, business unit, and executive levels.

Additional Skills

• Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Release Management, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX)

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Additional Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Release Management, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX)

What We Can Offer You:

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:

TCP_05

    

    

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Experience Level

Senior Level