Platform Software Infrastructure Engineer, Arista

• 5+ years hands-on experience in automation using Python, JavaScript, Golang
• Web application development experience using frameworks like Django, React, Angular; interfacing with MySQL using Python/Go/JavaScript/Typescript
• Past experience with Perforce/Git software configuration management tool will be a plus
• 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
• Minimum of Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent is preferred

• 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 echo 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
• Upgrade older UI written with Python to React to improve efficiency
• Develop automated hardware testing infrastructure to be used for production of Arista network switches - involves automation code written in Python/Go, as well as web application development using Django/React and MySQL
• 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

Total funding: $66m

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.