Software Engineer

Arista Networks is looking for a skilled professional for our Engineering Productivity team to help maintain and support our rapidly expanding infrastructure and internal user base. The ideal candidate is someone who can wear many hats, can be versatile and is enthusiastic about learning new technologies. As a part of the software engineering team, you will work with other team members to design, build and administer secure, scalable and fault-tolerant tools and infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.

Working in the Engineering Productivity (EngProd) group, you will collaborate and work with other engineers to design, build, scale, and operate the systems that the rest of Arista’s development teams use. The EngProd team uses industry-standard systems like Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Grafana, Spinnaker, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Google Cloud, and Varnish and also internal systems that we’ve built from the ground-up to automate CI/CD, testing, analysis, and visualization.

Responsibilities:

• Review and contribute to the specifications and implementations written by other team members.
• Design and develop features, feature tests and solutions. Fix bugs and refactor code as needed.
• Work with Arista’s software engineers to identify bottlenecks and limitations in our workflows, tooling, and infrastructure and provide fixes for those problems.
• Provide support for our tools and infrastructure to Arista’s development team.

Requirements

• At least BS Computer Science + 3 years’ experience, MS Computer Science + 2 years’ experience, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Knowledge of one or more of Go, Python, Javascript, C++, Java.
• Knowledge of Linux (or UNIX).
• Understanding of one of operating systems, networking systems, distributed systems
• Applied understanding of software engineering principles.
• Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to design a solution and implement features independently. Ability to work in small teams.