Site Reliability Engineer, Arista
Data-driven cloud networking
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Data-driven cloud networking
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To design, manufacture and deliver leading data-driven cloud networking solutions in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering + 5 years’ experience, MS Computer Science or Engineering + 5 years’ experience, or equivalent work experience
- Knowledge of one or more of Go, Python, bash shell scripting to be able to implement medium complexity automation workflows
- Knowledge of Linux (or UNIX) from administration and debugging perspective
- Hands-on experience in operating software systems (infrastructure, complex applications etc) at scale
- Experience in server provisioning (esp from storage and networking perspective)
- Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code
- Desirable to have one/more of the following skills
- Experience managing databases - eg: PostgreSQL or equivalent RDBMS etc
- Experience with docker and virtualization technologies
- Experience managing monitoring stack - Prometheus, Grafana etc
- Experience managing Artifactory, docker registry etc
- Experience managing CI/CD systems like GitLab tools, Spinnaker etc
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks like Terraform
- Experience with container orchestration via Kubernetes
What the job involves
- As an SRE you’ll be part of the team responsible for our global service fleet
- CloudVision is deployed on Kubernetes across global regions using Spinnaker for our CI/CD pipeline
- Our tech stack runs on GKE, using HBase/Hadoop as main distributed database and storage layer, ElasticSearch for powering search data, ClickHouse for fast real time queries of flow data, our own Kafka-based distributed real time stream processing layer for analytics, and TensorFlow for ML analysis
- Our monitoring system is built on top of Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and other OSS tools
- As a Senior SRE, you’ll be responsible for our global CloudVision service fleet
- Build, deploy safely and incrementally and operate critical production systems with focus on scalability, reliability, observability, performance and security
- Monitor, support and enhance product deployment experience across services
- Build automation to remove toil and efficiently operate production systems
- Proactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts and set up automated alert handling
- Create and maintain the incident response runbooks
- Build and deploy new systems with scalability, reliability, and observability as primary requirements
- Triage platform/infrastructural issues and help Arista software engineers in their triages. Engage with 3rd party vendor support
- Deploy new systems in a staged manner
- Write postmortem documents and build solutions to avoid incidents from repeating
- Plan and communicate maintenance windows on production systems
- Work with Arista’s product development teams to identify infrastructural issues that are causing bottlenecks and limitations in their workflows. Design and implement solutions to resolve them
- Survey and adopt best practices around infrastructure/platform to maintain secure, scalable and fault-tolerant systems
- Implement solutions to scale the systems
- Implement fault-tolerance and performance to improve availability of the systems
- Study the design and sufficient implementation details of OSS systems for better triage and fix resolution
Our take
Arista is a supplier of cloud networking solutions, addressing the needs of internet companies, cloud service providers, and enterprises. While the business is not tied to a crowd of large customers, companies are nonetheless attracted to its CloudVision Software - which has the potential to save them a significant amount of money.
The company's growth so far has led to it being seen as a rising star in the computer networking industry. It competes directly with digital giant Cisco, but despite this boasts impressive revenue growth. In fact, Arista has been vocal with its confidence that it can continue to grow at a rapid pace, as it further develops its offering for the networking market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2020
$36m
SERIES C
Jul 2017
$30m
LATE VC
Total funding: $66m
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Jayshree Ullal
(CEO)Jayshree joined the Arista team in 2008 as the Founding CEO and has held the position since.
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