Platform Software Core Infrastructure Engineer

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 $8 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.

Who You’ll Work With

The Platform software team is responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of hardware validation and manufacturing diagnostic software. They will work with fellow engineers and members of the hardware and manufacturing team to understand the design and help with validation.

What You’ll Do

 

Arista is passionate about building the highest quality, most advanced network switches in the world. To scale manufacturing for ever increasing production volume while ensuring the highest quality standards, we use an automated production testing system. We are obsessed with continuously improving the level of automation in all areas - verification of newly built hardware on the assembly line, as well as debugging, tracking and analyzing trends in manufacturing issues. You will be responsible for continuously improving this automation infrastructure, enhancing and optimizing the user interface that is presented to the manufacturing facility staff.

• Develop tools and infrastructure for automating a lot of manual processes.

• Develop tools that visualize failures in the manufacturing and help the team to easily narrow down the problem.

• Integrate various tools in Arista and help create a unified eco system.

• To help agile manufacturing, design and develop tools that provide configuration information to the tests on the fly. Automate a lot of people driven processes to data driven processes. 

• Develop automated hardware testing infrastructure to be used for production of Arista network switches - involves automation code written in Python/Go, interacting with db like mySQL, mongoDB

• Develop a distributed system, that is capable of handling hundreds of services, co-ordinate/synchronize them.

• Interface with local and remote manufacturing teams to resolve problems, collect requirements, identify opportunities for improving efficiency and scalability of automated production system on an on-going basis 

• Track multiple software release branches; develop tools to automate synchronization of code across these branches 

• 3+ years hands-on experience in automation using Python, Java script, Golang

• Experience working with databases like mysql, MariaDB, MongoDB

• Past experience with Perforce/Git software configuration management tool will be a plus

• Experience working with Operating systems, System programming, Multiprocess systems. 

• Working knowledge of setting up and administering Linux servers, network switches, troubleshooting network issues

• Ability to pick up new programming languages and frameworks

• Self-directed and have a passion for tools development and test automation

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to summarize complex concepts with clarity and simplicity

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.