Web / Data Backend Software Engineer

Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software driven cloud networking solutions for large data center storage and computing environments. Aristas award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds from 10 to 400 gigabits per second, redefine scalability, agility and resilience. Arista has shipped more than 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding member of the 25/50GbE consortium. Arista Networks products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

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Arista Networks is looking for world-class software engineers to join our team to help us design and develop a next-generation, web-based provisioning, monitoring, analytics and visualization interface to allow network operators to better configure, monitor, and control their networks. You will be part of a fast paced, high caliber team building the software for products used to build the industry's largest data center networks.

At Arista, you will own your projects from definition to deployment, and you will be responsible for the quality of everything you deliver. You will also have the opportunity to use many cutting-edge technologies including Go, Kubernetes, GKE, HBase, Kafka, and Hadoop.

This role demands a strong and broad software engineering background. Your role will not be limited to any single aspect of software development at Arista, but will cover all aspects of software development spanning the addition of new features, debugging problems and fine tuning code for scalability and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and develop features and solutions. Develop tests for all code to ensure quality. Fix bugs and refactor code as needed.

• Review and contribute to the specifications and implementations written by another team members

• Provide technical leadership across features, projects and tools

• Work with Customer Support Engineers to analyze problems in customer networks and provide fixes for those problems when needed in the form of new software releases or software patches

• Work with the System Test Engineers to analyze problems found in their tests and provide fixes for those problems

• Mentor new and junior engineers to bring them up to speed in Arista's software development environment

• At least BS Computer Science +3 years experience, or MS Computer Science +2 years experience, Ph.D. in Computer Science

• Knowledge of one or more of Go, C, C++, Python, Java

• Passion or strong interest in developing scalable backend systems in Go

• Have developed and deployed several cloud applications, and understand the problems that can occur and how to solve them

• Familiar with, or have a strong desire to learn, the latest tools and technologies, including Kubernetes, Kafka, HBase, and more

• Experience with network monitoring, network protocols, distributed systems, machine learning or data analytics is a plus

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.