Lead Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.

At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We  believe that 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 Best Engineering Team, 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 standards of quality and performance in everything we do.

Who You’ll Work With

Working in Engineering Productivity (EngProd), you will collaborate and work with other engineers to design, build, scale, and operate the systems that the rest of Arista’s development teams use. The EngProd team uses industry-standard systems like Ansible, Bazel, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Kafka, and Redis, as well as internal systems that we’ve built from the ground-up to automate CI/CD, testing, analysis, and visualization. We believe scalability, reliability and observability are cornerstones of stable systems, and essential to meeting the high-performance tooling and infrastructure needs of the rapidly growing product development teams..

Arista Software Engineering roles demand a strong and broad software engineering background. While the primary focus area for this role is EngProd, the role will not be limited to any single aspect of software development at Arista. It will cover all aspects of software development spanning the addition of new features, debugging problems and fine tuning code for scalability and performance. You will own your projects from definition to deployment and customer interactions, and you will be responsible for the quality of everything you deliver. 

Arista Software Engineering prides itself on a supportive and growth oriented culture. Over time, as your interests change, coupled with evolving business needs you will have the opportunity to switch from EngProd to other areas, if you like. 

What You’ll Do

• Provide technical leadership across features, projects and tools.
• Review and contribute to the specifications and implementations written by other team members.
• Design and develop features, feature tests and solutions. Fix bugs and refactor code as needed.
• Work with Arista’s software engineers to identify bottlenecks and limitations in our workflows, tooling, and infrastructure and provide fixes for those problems.
• Provide support for our tools and infrastructure to Arista’s development team.

• 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
• Expert knowledge of one or more of Go, Python, Javascript / React
• Software development experience with Linux
• Knowledge and experience in of one of operating systems, networking systems, distributed systems
• Understanding and ability to apply software engineering principles
• Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrated technical leadership, strong communication skills, and the ability to work in a small team environment
• Ability to design a solution and implement features independently

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Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer.  Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law.  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.