Arista is seeking to solve the problem of developing and maintaining scalable, high-performance routing protocols and technologies for Data Center, Cloud provider, Internet/WAN, and Service Provider environments using the Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS).
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of C or C++ and Python
- Software development experience with Linux
- Knowledge and experience in networking protocols and technologies such as BGP, IS-IS, LDP, OSPF, PIM, RSVP, EVPN, Segment Routing, VPWS, VPLS, LDP Pseudowires
- Understanding and ability to apply software engineering principles
- Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
- Demonstrated technical leadership
- Ability to design a solution and implement features independently
Responsibilities
- Understand requirements from customers, product managers and field engineers, and write functional specifications
- Architect, design, develop and maintain Layer 3/Routing protocols, solutions and features using C, C++ and Python
- Author test plans, build automated tests and infrastructure to test the features
- Work with support engineers and customers to troubleshoot and resolve problems in their networks
- Own all aspects of development and delivery of software
- Provide technical leadership across features, projects and tools
- Mentor new and junior engineers to bring them up to speed in Arista's software development environment
Other
- BS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 6 years experience, or MS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 4 years experience, or Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 3 years experience, or equivalent work experience
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to work in a small team environment
- Hands on experience developing networking or distributed systems software is a plus
