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 buildDesign, architect and develop network applications and microservices for Data Center Networking on SONiCPushing, testing, documenting the featureWorking alongside customers in the field if neededAre 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 skillsFluency in one of C/C++/Python programmingHands-on experience with designs and implementations in a strong product-engineering environmentStrong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environmentExperience working through the complete software development life cycle right fromrequirements gathering to deliver the fully developed feature.Preferred qualifications ):A minimum of five years of experience in software developmentA minimum of one year of hands-on SONiC experience is a mustUnderstanding of SONiC architectureKnowledge of the FRR open routing stack (formerly Quagga, Zebra), Redis-DB, and DockerExperience using SONiC SAI for new feature development and integrationExperience in Network Systems Software developmentStrong software debugging skills especially in embedded systemsExperience with software development for the forwarding ASICs, FPGAs, Network Processors etcDatapath forwarding for ACLs, QoS, Unicast, Multicast, etc is a plusStrong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environmentExperience working through the complete software development life cycle PRB