Software Engineering Manager 1 – Streaming & Cloud Platform Reliability

Software Engineering Manager 1 – Streaming & Cloud Platform Reliability

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work 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 onfinding 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:

We’re looking for a hands‑on Software Engineering Manager to lead a small team (2–4 developers) focused on improving the reliability of Mist’s cloud platform by driving concrete postmortem action items from our incident management process.

This team owns follow‑ups from production incidents—especially those involving our streaming data pipelines (Kafka / Flink / Storm) and core APIs. You’ll work closely with senior engineers to turn incident learnings into durable engineering improvements.

This is a hybrid role requiring on‑site collaboration multiple days per week in Cupertino, California. Due to the requirements of this position, this role requires a US Citizen or Green Card holder.

What You’ll Do

• Own and drivepost‑incident follow‑upsfrom our Incident Management process, turning incident reports into design and implementation work.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a2–4 person engineering team, while contributing hands‑on code in production services.
• Design, implement, and hardenstreaming topologiesusing Kafka, Storm, and/or Flink (e.g., stats, telemetry, alerts, pcaps).
• Improve reliability ofcore APIs(REST API, WebSocket, Webhooks, etc.), including auth, rate limiting, and DR‑sensitive flows.
• Enhanceobservability and runbooks: add metrics/alerts, define SLOs, and codify playbooks for recurring incident patterns.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Data teams onDR, multi‑region, and multi‑cloudbehavior (AWS, GCP, DR regions).
• Ensure robusttesting and deploymentpractices (unit/integration tests, regression tests for past incidents, safe rollout/rollback).

Experience Required for this Role

• 7+ yearstotal professional software engineering experience.
• This is a hybrid role requiring on‑site collaboration multiple days per week in Cupertino, California. Due to the requirements of this position, this role requires a US Citizen or Green Card holder.
• 2+ yearsin ateam leadrole (mentors, performance feedback, prioritization), while remaining hands‑on technically.
• 5+ yearsbuilding backend or distributed systems inPython, Go, or Javaproficiency in at least one of these languages to lead design reviews and contribute production code.
• 3+ yearsdesigning, implementing, and operatingdistributed, event‑driven systemsusing:
  • Kafka and at least one ofFlinkorStorm, or a comparable streaming framework.
• 3+ yearsbuilding and operatingRESTful APIs(service design, auth, rate limiting, client IP handling, versioning).
• 3+ yearsworking withcloud‑native infrastructure:
  • Kubernetes, containerized microservices, CI/CD pipelines.
• 3+ yearswithproduction datastoressuch as:
  • Redis, Postgres, Cassandra/Datastax, S3/GCS, or similar distributed storage systems.
• 2+ yearsdirectly involved inproduction incident response:
  • On‑call participation, postmortems, and driving remediation work through to completion.
• Proven ability to debuglatency, throughput, data correctness, and availabilityissues in streaming pipelines and/or APIs.
• Experience adding or improvingmetrics, logging, tracing, and alertsfor production services.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ yearsworking withbig‑data / analytics or ETLsystems
  (e.g., Apache Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, or similar).
• Experience withwebhookor event‑delivery systems (idempotency, retries, ordering, DLQs).
• Exposure tomulti‑region / DRdesign: cross‑cloud migrations, DNS and certificate management, environment‑driven configuration.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices,CI/CD automation, and service ownership.
• Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana/Elasticsearch.

Why This Role

• Direct, visible impact on thestability and reliabilityof Mist’s cloud platform and AI‑driven networking products.
• A focused charter withreal, concrete backlogsdriven by incidents—not vague “platform work.”
• Close collaboration with strong senior engineers and SREs, with room to shape bothtechnical direction and team culture.

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Analytical Thinking, Bias, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 5 more}

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:

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Job Level:

Manager_1

"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 155,500 - 315,000 in California
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

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