Software Engineer (Hardware Tools and Infrastructure)

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.

At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do.

Who You’ll Work With

You will collaborate with team members to design, build, and manage secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant tools and infrastructure. 

What You’ll Do

The Arista Hardware team is responsible for designing and delivering the most technologically advanced networking equipment. As a Software Engineer, you will have the unique opportunity to work on a groundbreaking system that will serve the entire hardware team to deliver and grow our multi-billion dollar business line. You will be developing tools and processes focused on improving the productivity of the whole Hardware Engineers in the organization.

You will drive the design and development of tools such as parsers and dashboards which aid in automated hardware verification. We are obsessed with continuously improving the level of automation in all hardware design areas. You will be responsible for continuously improving this automation infrastructure, maintaining the quality of our code through the code development of development and review processes, and mentor others in these efforts. Please note that this position is not eligible for remote work and requires the candidate to be local to the Bay Area.

• Create various tools integrating them to the Arista unified ecosystem. Support agile manufacturing by designing and developing tools that dynamically provide configuration information to tests, and automate manual, people-driven processes into data-driven workflows.
• Build automated a closed-loop hardware testing infrastructure for Arista network switches, leveraging automation code written in Python and Go, by continuously improving test-coverage for development and field issues.
• Define and drive quality code development processes to align the team.
• Work with directly with hardware team customers to identify and develop key efforts that can drastically improve hardware development process in terms of quality and efficiency

You will be responsible for:

• Building, integrating, and maintaining tools and infrastructure to support a rapidly growing team of 100+ engineers.
• Aligning team on efforts to determine priorities with the greatest impact to the hardware team (including the tools team itself) 
• Monitoring and reporting of tools and infrastructure to ensure ongoing tools quality.
• Writing and validating high-quality code adhering to Arista code development standards.
• Documenting and validating developed features comprehensively.
• Providing support to hardware team customers.

• 2+ years of hands-on experience.
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (preferred).
• Proficiency in programming languages including, but not limited to, Python, C++, and Golang.
• Experience developing in a Linux environment.
• A strong desire to improve processes and productivity through automation
• Self motivated attitude whose also open to new ideas and other ways of thinking
• An insaciable curiosity to learn new engineering disciplines
• Experience working with multi-disciplined, cross-functional team

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Prior experience in developing and maintaining services.
• Experience with CI/CD development work-flows and tools
• Exposure to hardware design, verification, and analysis.

Compensation Information 

The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $119,000 to $148,000. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location. The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. US-based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.

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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.