Software Engineer (Platform/Routing/Switching)

Arista Networks is the leader in software driven networking solutions for today’s largest Data Center (DC), Cloud, Internet/WAN, Service Provider (SP) and Campus environments. Arista has over 7500 customers ranging from the largest cloud providers, to healthcare, government, carrier, finance, education, and production web/SaaS companies. Arista’s products are the foundation underpinning much of modern society’s operations.

Arista has ambitious plans and an unprecedented opportunity for growth and we are looking for many more engineers and designers to join us in building and innovating the world’s networks. Arista is a profitable, publicly quoted company with revenues of over $3.5B with a culture of invention, quality, respect, and fun.

As a Software Engineer your core responsibility is to deliver new product features. A major part of this is writing and owning the code that drives our products. However, the role of a Software Engineer is much bigger than ‘simply’ writing code. Software engineers work on the whole development process, including:

• Suggesting and deciding what features to build
• Driving the design and architecture
• Pushing, testing, documenting the feature
• Working alongside customers in the field if needed

Are you right for this role ?

This is an interesting and exciting opportunity to be a part of the software development team that is redefining Data Center switching. For success at Arista all you need is:

· 6-10 years of hands-on experience with designs and implementations in a strong product-engineering environment

· Strong engineering and Computer Science fundamentals

· Extensive background in algorithms and strong software architecture skills

· Fluency in one of C/C++/Python programming

Good to have qualifications

· Strong software debugging skills especially in embedded systems.

· Experience with software development for the forwarding ASICs, FPGAs, Network Processors etc.

. Experience with hardware abstraction layer

. Datapath forwarding for ACLs, QoS, Unicast, Multicast, EVPN MPLS, VXLAN, OAM etc

· Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment

· Experience working through the complete software development life cycle right from requirements gathering to deliver the fully developed feature.

. Experience in Network Systems Software development is a plus