Senior Distinguished Technologist

Senior Distinguished Technologist

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

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.

HPE Storage is at the forefront of developing foundational technologies that power modern data infrastructure. We are seeking a highly accomplished technologist to help drive innovation across core platform capabilities that serve as the building blocks for future storage solutions. This role will shape technologies spanning scale-out storage, object storage, storage virtualization, NVMe / NVMe-oF, hypervisor-based infrastructure, and low-level systems software that serve as building blocks for future HPE Storage solutions.

Working alongside industry-leading engineers, architects, and technologists, you'll influence long-term innovation, solve complex technical challenges, and help deliver the platforms that power the future of HPE's Storage portfolio.

• Drive technology strategy, architecture, and roadmap development for foundational storage platform technologies that enable multiple products and solutions across the HPE Storage portfolio.
• Define and influence system architectures spanning embedded software, platform services, hardware abstraction, data path functionality, and storage infrastructure technologies.
• Lead technical innovation across complex hardware and software ecosystems, identifying opportunities to unify capabilities and accelerate adoption of new technologies across product lines.
• Partner with senior engineering leaders, architects, and fellows to solve highly complex system-level challenges involving storage, networking, virtualization, and distributed infrastructure platforms.
• Influence long-term architectural direction and technology investments across HPE Storage while aligning technical outcomes with strategic business objectives.
• Serve as a technical authority both internally and externally, representing HPE in industry forums, technology partnerships, and standards-related engagements.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, driving innovation that creates competitive differentiation and broad business impact.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, fostering technical excellence and strengthening HPE's engineering leadership community.

Knowledge and Skills

• 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…