Software Tools Development Engineer - Hardware Team

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 $7 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

You will work as Software Tools Development Engineer for the Hardware Team.We design virtually all of the hardware and software that goes into our products, and it’s a badge we wear proudly. This wouldn’t be possible without the likes of talented engineers who are given the opportunity to fully lead their own projects and the freedom to think outside the box.Individuals will work closely with part-time and dedicated multi-disciplinary engineers to create tools to hone Arista’s hardware development workflow with an eye toward improving quality and delivering the best possible products to our customers.

What You’ll Do

Candidates for this position would be responsible for the entire unit software design process:

• Authoring stress tests to validate hardware conceptual designs
• Authoring Functional Specifications to communicate intentions with the broader team
• Debugging of challenging issues multi-server execution environments 
• Reviewing peers’ code against good-practices and target architectures
• Unit-test code development for validation (positive and negative testing) or new tests created
• Development of doc templates and test reports to communicate with hardware team counterparts of testing results
• Root-cause unexpected issues and develop multi-layered patches to address immediate and long-term consequences of the issue
• Drive your own efforts to contribute to hardware tools team overall priorities
• Learn the varied code languages to support the various tools used by existing team development software suites, including C/C++, golang, python, TCL, and others.

• B.S. Electrical Engineering and/or B.S. Computer Engineering
• 3-5  years of relevant experience in software engineering for tools development
• Self-motivated w/ a passion for developing “elegant”, high-quality software solutions
• A strong curiosity supporting continuous learning and self-development
• Great communication skills and team-driven mindset 
• Experience working with large software ecosystems utilizing CI/CD workflows
• Knowledge working with multi-processor clusters and computing environments
• Fundamental knowledge of networking protocols and operation
• Enthusiasm to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to achieve a greater overall solution.

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.