Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer
This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement 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:
What Do We Do
Our product gives IT managers insight into how their users are experiencing Wi-Fi, network, and application performance, and helps them fix problems before users complain. Other performance tools are complex and intimidating, built by network engineers for network engineers; ours is beautiful and simple, and our customers love it. Our sensor hardware is a delight to install, and our software is easy and fun to use. Our product is used in offices, universities, banks, hotels, airports, stadiums, retail stores, and more - every business with Wi-Fi is a potential customer that we can help.
We design all our own hardware and software in Cape Town. Our software systems are built entirely in-house using Python, React, Rust, Postgres, ClickHouse, a variety of AWS services, and other technologies. We are truly a full stack company, with a great set of technical challenges to work on.
What the Role Entails
You will be developing and maintaining a primarily Rust codebase (with some Typescript) that runs on or close to the end-users’ devices managed by our customers. The software is written to be cross-platform and cross-product compatible, allowing us to run the same core code as a desktop agent in the taskbar with a UI and as a Linux service on the access points in the network. The role will also involve integration with our ever-evolving cloud services and developing and improving methods of testing and ensuring code safety and stability for deployment to vast fleets of remote devices across different execution environments.
Responsibilities
Design and develop new features and enhancements for the software agent.
Write and execute complete testing plans, protocols, and documentation for architecture in a cross-platform environment.
Provide guidance and mentoring to less experienced staff members.
Education and Experience Required
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
Knowledge and Skills
Practical experience programming in Rust or C/C++
Enjoys developing clearly written, robust, and careful architected code
Good understanding of basic computer networking (any knowledge of TCP/IP is a huge bonus) .
Experience in developing applications that run natively on a PC.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Beneficial but not essential:
Platform specific development:
Windows
macOS
Linux
Stretch goal, Android/iOS
Asynchronous runtimes
Application distribution
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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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