Senior/Lead Software Engineer, Packet Forwarding Engines

🕒 June 4

🇨🇦 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

• Write functional specifications and design specifications for small-sized packet forwarding engine features and system software to manage hardware components. • Independently implement solutions to small-sized problems in our packet forwarding engine software and system software using the C, C++, and python programming languages. • Understand, utilize, test, and debug packet forwarding engine and hardware components vendor-provided software libraries in your solutions. • Write test plan specifications for small-sized packet forwarding engine features and system software, 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 packet forwarding engine software problems and system software issues. • Work with Customer Support Engineers to analyze problems in customer networks and provide fixes for those problems when needed in the form of new software releases or software patches. • Work with the hardware team and hardware component vendors to bring up initial versions of new systems using packet forwarding engines and system software. • Work with the diagnostic software team to design and develop software for the validation of new packet forwarding engine ASICs and hardware components. • Work with the System Test Engineers to analyze problems found in their tests and provide fixes for those problems. • Mentor new and junior engineers to bring them up to speed in Arista's software development environment. • Review and contribute to the specifications and implementations written by other team members. • Help to create a schedule for the implementation and debugging tasks, updating that schedule weekly, and reporting it to the project lead.

🎯 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 • Experience or knowledge in C or C++ • Knowledge of UNIX or Linux • Understanding of IP networking or distributed systems • 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental • Vision • Wellbeing • Income protection • Group Retirement Savings Plan