Software Engineer (Extensibility Engineer) at Arista Networks

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

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• 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