Senior/Lead Software Engineer, BIOS

🕒 July 29

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $120k - $195k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Arista Networks

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2004

🏢 Enterprise

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $2.6M Post-IPO Debt on 2015-05

Enterprise • Telecommunications • Cloud

Arista Networks is a leader in building scalable high-performance and ultra-low-latency networks for modern data center and cloud computing environments. The company offers a wide range of networking solutions including the Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS) for cloud networking, CloudVision for network automation and observability, and a variety of high-performance switches and routing platforms. Arista's solutions are designed for enterprise WANs, cloud-grade routing, multi-domain segmentation, security, and modern network operating models, making them a pivotal choice for hyperscale data centers and cloud environments.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, integrate and maintain the low-level CPU software in Arista products. • Develop automated tests using C, C++ and Python to validate your features. • Work with hardware engineers and vendors to qualify new CPUs and related components for use in Arista products. • Track ongoing developments in the Linux Kernel and identify features and functionality of interest to Arista for our products and for internal development needs. • Work with upstream open source BIOS communities to contribute features back to the mainline. • Review and contribute to functional and design specifications written by other engineers. • Work with Customer Support Engineers and customers to analyze, mitigate and fix problems in customer networks. • Work with the System Test Engineers to analyze problems found in their tests and provide fixes for those problems. • Provide technical leadership across features, projects and tools. • Mentor new and junior engineers to bring them up to speed in Arista’s software development environment.

🎯 Requirements

• BS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 8 years experience, or MS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 6 years experience, or Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 3 years experience, or equivalent work experience • Expert knowledge of and extensive experience programming in C required. • Knowledge of C++ and Python is desirable. • Experience designing and developing software in CPU firmware, BIOS and boot loader environments. • Experience bringing up new CPU boards. • Significant hands-on experience diagnosing problems, troubleshooting issues, and fixing bugs in low-level CPU firmware, BIOS and boot loader software. • Familiarity with Linux kernel architecture, design and implementation desirable • Understanding of IP networking architecture, design and principles desirable • Applied understanding of modern software engineering principles and practices • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills. • Strong software design and implementation skills. • Ability to work independently and in small teams. • Ability to communicate articulately, and document your designs and implementations clearly, and concisely. • Familiarity with and experience working with the x86 and ARM CPU architectures

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • dental • vision • wellbeing • income protection • Group Retirement Savings Plan