Software Engineer

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
• Design, architect and develop network applications and microservices for Data Center Networking on SONiC
• 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 team that is redefining Data Centre switching. For success at Arista, all you need is:

• Strong engineering and Computer Science fundamentals.
• Extensive background in algorithms and strong software architecture skills
• Fluency in one of C/C++/Python programming
• Hands-on experience with designs and implementations in a strong product-engineering environment
• 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.

Preferred qualifications ):

• A minimum of five years of experience in software development
• A minimum of one year of hands-on SONiC experience is a must
• Understanding of SONiC architecture
• Knowledge of the FRR open routing stack (formerly Quagga, Zebra), Redis-DB, and Docker
• Experience using SONiC SAI for new feature development and integration
• Experience in Network Systems Software development
• Strong software debugging skills especially in embedded systems
• Experience with software development for the forwarding ASICs, FPGAs, Network Processors etc
• Datapath forwarding for ACLs, QoS, Unicast, Multicast, etc is a plus
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment
• Experience working through the complete software development life cycle