Software Engineer, Arista
Hardware tools and Infrastructure
$119-148k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Data-driven networking platform
Be an early applicant
Data-driven networking platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$119-148k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
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
- 2+ years of hands-on experience
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (preferred)
- Proficiency in programming languages including, but not limited to, Python, C++, and Golang
- Experience developing in a Linux environment
- A strong desire to improve processes and productivity through automation
- Self motivated attitude whose also open to new ideas and other ways of thinking
- An insaciable curiosity to learn new engineering disciplines
- Experience working with multi-disciplined, cross-functional team
- Desirable Skills and Knowledge:
- Prior experience in developing and maintaining services
- Experience with CI/CD development work-flows and tools
- Exposure to hardware design, verification, and analysis
What the job involves
- You will collaborate with team members to design, build, and manage secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant tools and infrastructure
- As a Software Engineer, you will have the unique opportunity to work on a groundbreaking system that will serve the entire hardware team to deliver and grow our multi-billion dollar business line.
- You will be developing tools and processes focused on improving the productivity of the whole Hardware Engineers in the organization
- You will drive the design and development of tools such as parsers and dashboards which aid in automated hardware verification. We are obsessed with continuously improving the level of automation in all hardware design areas.
- You will be responsible for continuously improving this automation infrastructure, maintaining the quality of our code through the code development of development and review processes, and mentor others in these efforts
- Create various tools integrating them to the Arista unified ecosystem. Support agile manufacturing by designing and developing tools that dynamically provide configuration information to tests, and automate manual, people-driven processes into data-driven workflows
- Build automated a closed-loop hardware testing infrastructure for Arista network switches, leveraging automation code written in Python and Go, by continuously improving test-coverage for development and field issues
- Define and drive quality code development processes to align the team
- Work with directly with hardware team customers to identify and develop key efforts that can drastically improve hardware development process in terms of quality and efficiency
- Building, integrating, and maintaining tools and infrastructure to support a rapidly growing team of 100+ engineers
- Aligning team on efforts to determine priorities with the greatest impact to the hardware team (including the tools team itself)
- Monitoring and reporting of tools and infrastructure to ensure ongoing tools quality
- Writing and validating high-quality code adhering to Arista code development standards
- Documenting and validating developed features comprehensively
- Providing support to hardware team customers
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
Andreas von Bechtolsheim
(CDO)Previously was a co-founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems. Has also received the EY 2015 US Entrepreneur of the Year Award and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Kenneth Duda
(CTO)Holds 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT as well as a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously worked as the CTO at There and was also the first employee of Granite Systems, where they lead the software development team.
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