Expert/Principal Software Engineer
Arista Networks is looking for world-class Senior/Lead system software engineers to join our Extensible Operating System (EOS) software development team
As a core member of the EOS team, you will be part of a fast-paced, high caliber team-building features to run the world’s largest data center networks
Your software will be a key component of Arista’s EOS and related software, Arista’s unique, Linux-based network operating system that runs on all of Arista’s data center networking products
The EOS team is responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of software meant to run on the various Arista switches
You will work with your fellow engineers and members of the marketing team to gather and understand the functional and technical requirements for upcoming projects
You will help write functional specifications, design specifications, test plans, and the code to bring all of these to life
You will also work with customers to triage and fix problems in their networks
Internally, you will develop automated tests for your software, monitor the execution of those tests, and triage and fix problems found by your tests
At Arista, you will own your projects from definition to deployment, and you will be responsible for the quality of everything you deliver
Working with, understanding and modifying existing open source software will be part of the role
Your role will not be limited to a single aspect of EOS at Arista, but cover all aspects of EOS
You’ll write functional specifications and design specifications for drivers and API to manage hardware devices in linux and implement
Independently implement solutions to small-sized problems in our EOS and related software, using the C, C , and python programming languages
Write test plan specifications and implement automated test programs to execute the cases described in the test plan
Debug problems found by our automa