Software Principal Engineer - SONiC Community & System Validation
Dell Technologies · Posted Nov 10, 2026
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Senior
Principal Software Engineer – SONiC Community & System Validation
Responsibilities
- Represent Dell System Test Engineering in SONiC working groups, technical forums, design reviews, and community initiatives
- Contribute validation expertise, automation, and test infrastructure to the SONiC ecosystem
- Review specifications, RFCs, design proposals, and roadmaps from a validation and customer deployment perspective
- Validate SONiC features across functional, scale, interoperability, resiliency, and lossless-fabric scenarios
- Analyze complex issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive triage and closure with engineering and community contributors
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering in CSE, ECE, EEE, IT, Computer Networks, Cloud Computing, or equivalent
- Nice to have: SpyTest
- Nice to have: AI agents
- Nice to have: Claude
- Nice to have: Devin