Arista Networks is looking to solve business and technical problems related to building innovative and scalable solutions in Layer 2 protocols, network management, and security services for large data center, campus, and routing environments.
Requirements
- Proficiency in C or C++ and Python
- Software development experience with Linux
- Knowledge of layer 2 protocols like 802.1X, MACsec, LACP, STP, etc -or-
- Knowledge of network management and monitoring protocols like AAA, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, SFlow, IPFIX, OpenConfig, etc
- Understanding and ability to apply software engineering principles
- Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
- Ability to design a solution and implement features independently
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, develop and maintain Layer 2, network management, monitoring and security 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
- Work with the System Test Engineers to analyze problems found in their tests and provide fixes for those problems
Other
- Understand requirements from customers, product managers and field engineers, and write functional specifications
- Demonstrated technical leadership, strong communication skills, and the ability to work in a small team environment
- Hands on experience developing networking or distributed systems software is a plus
- 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
