Software Engineer (Platform/ Routing)

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 team that is redefining Data Centre switching. For success at Arista all you need is:

• Strong engineering and Computer Science fundamentals with 3-10 years of industry experience.
• 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 delivering the fully developed feature.

Preferred qualifications (Any one of the below):

• Strong software debugging skills especially in embedded systems.
• Understanding of IP networking and IP routing protocols, specifically one of RIP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, or PIM.
• Experience with DPDK, software forwarding, Qos, Layer 2 protocols like 802.1X, AAA, Macsec etc.
• Experience with software development for the forwarding ASICs, FPGAs, Network Processors etc
• Experience with hardware abstraction layer
• Experience in Network Systems Software development is a plus