Job Description

Who You'll Work With

Arista Networks is seeking candidates to join the Professional Services (Software Development) team. This team is a global team of software engineers working to deliver high quality and robust software to help Arista's customers and internal colleagues achieve their goals and solve interesting real-life problems.

What You'll Do

The team's work can be divided into three main areas:

• Network automation: Developing innovative frameworks for customers by leveraging cutting-edge network automation techniques
• Software customizations: Designing and implementing solutions to help customers deploy and operate advanced networking infrastructure
• Efficiency enablement: Building software tools to help internal and external collaborators work more productively when deploying, migrating and operating networks

Initial Contract Duration - 1 year, with a possibility of extension

Qualifications

• Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3+ years professional software development experience
• Proficiency in Python, Golang, C++, C or Rust
• Expertise in version control systems (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
• Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g. PyTest, GoMock)
• Understanding of IP networking and/or distributed systems
• Experience with Unix or Linux
• Comfortable working in all phases of software development life cycle
• Personable with excellent communication skills
• Great problem solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work independently, and also collaborate effectively within a team
• Keen intellect with willingness to keep learning and developing
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation

Desired Experience

• Experience with CI platforms (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins)
• Familiarity with container technologies (e.g. Docker, Podman, Kubernetes) and service orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)
• Familiarity with Nautobot or Netbox
• Familiarity with Itential Automation Platform
• Experience with data center networking, management and orchestration
• Experience building third party software integrations and APIs
• Experience working in a customer-facing role

Additional Information

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.