Software Engineer (Routing)

Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $5 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience.  Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

This is an interesting and exciting opportunity to be a part of the software team that is redefining Data Centre switching. The EOS Routing PI team is responsible for developing routing protocols like BGP, OSPFand ISIS and Data Center and SP technologies like MPLS, Segment Routing and EVPN. A unique feature of the Arista routing team is that the routing software is common across Campus, Data Center and Service Provider routing features. This is a global team that spreads multiple geographies working on cutting edge features that get deployed in the largest Cloud titan, Service Provider, Enterprise and Campus networks.

What You’ll Do

As a Software Engineer your core responsibility is to deliver new cutting edge product features. A major part of this is writing and owning design/implementation of 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

For success at Arista all you need is:

• Strong engineering and Computer Science fundamentals with 3+ 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
• Experience with routing protocols and/or Data Center/SP routing features
• Software Development experience with Linux

Qualifications

Preferred qualifications

• Strong software debugging skills especially in embedded systems.
• Hands-on expertise in one or more of areas like DPDK, Hardware forwarding, Network virtualization, SDN, EVPN, Kubernetes and L2/L3 protocols
• 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.
• Experience in Network Systems Software development is a plus

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