Arista Networks is an industry leader in Cognitive Cloud Networking for mission critical data center and campus environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $5 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds from 10M to 400G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility and resilience. Arista has shipped more than 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding member of the 25/50GbE consortium. Arista Networks products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

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.

Job Description

The EOS Routing PI team is responsible for developing routing protocols like BGP, OSPF and ISIS and Data Center and SP technologies like MPLS, Segment Routing and EVPN. A unique feature of the Arista routing team is that the routing software is common across Campus, Data Center and Service Provider routing features. This is a global team that spreads multiple geographies working on cutting edge features that get deployed in the largest Cloud titan, Service Provider, Enterprise and Campus networks.

Responsibilities

Write functional specifications and design specifications for small-sized routing protocol features.
Independently implement solutions to small-sized problems in our routing protocol software, using the C, C++, and python programming languages.
Write test plan specifications for small-sized routing protocol features, and implement automated test programs to execute the cases described in the test plan.
Debug problems found by our automated test programs and fix the problems.
Work on a team implementing, testing, and debugging solutions to larger routing protocol problems.

Qualifications

B.E./ M.E., MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering with 3-10 years of related work experience
Knowledge of C or C++
Knowledge of UNIX or Linux
Understanding of IP networking and IP routing protocols, specifically one of RIP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, or PIM.
Hands on experience in the design and development of IP routing protocol or distributed systems software.
Hands on experience with enterprise or service provider class, ethernet switch/router system software development, or significant PhD level research in the area of network routing and packet forwarding.
Applied understanding of software engineering principles
Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills.
Ability to design a solution to a small-sized problem, and implement that solution without outside help. Able to work on a small team solving a medium-sized problem with limited oversight.

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