Software Engineer

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. It focuses on innovation by leveraging advances in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking. The company has won awards for engineering, diversity, compensation, and work-life balance.

• Strong engineering and Computer Science fundamentals.
• 5+ years fluency in C or C++. Python experience is a bonus.
• Solid understanding of Linux OS internals, kernel architecture, and device driver model.
• Proven experience interacting with low-level hardware interfaces and communication protocols (e.g., I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, GPIO, IPMI).

• Programming ASICs with thousands of registers and tables.
• Implementing latency analysis and event tracking at a massive scale.
• Developing software agents mediating among networking ASICs, FPGAs, and PCIe bridges.
• Optimizing lasers, error correction, and quality of service for global networks.
• Evaluating new CPUs and collaborating with CPU/BIOS vendors for operating system integration.
• Qualification and bring-up of supporting hardware components such as PCIe memory and thermal controllers.