- Arista Networks is looking for world-class Senior/Lead software engineers to join our Extensible Operating System (EOS) software development team

- As a core member of the EOS team, you will be part of a quick-paced, high caliber team-building features to run the world’s largest data center networks

- Your software will be a key component of Arista’s EOS, Arista’s unique, Linux-based network operating system that runs on all of Arista’s data center networking products
- The EOS team is responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of software meant to run on the various Arista switches

- You will work with your fellow engineers and members of the marketing team to gather and understand the functional and technical requirements for upcoming projects

- You will help write functional specifications, design specifications, test plans, and the code to bring all of these to life

- You will also work with customers to triage and fix problems in their networks

- Internally, you will develop automated tests for your software, monitor the execution of those tests, and triage and fix problems found by your tests

- At Arista, you will own your projects from definition to deployment, and you will be responsible for the quality of everything you deliver

- This role demands strong and broad software engineering fundamentals, and ideally a good understanding of networking including capabilities like L2, L3, and fundamentals of commercial switching HW.

Your role will not be limited to a single aspect of EOS at Arista, but cover all aspects of EOS

- Write functional specifications and design specifications for features related to forwarding traffic on the internet and cloud data centers

- Independently implement solutions to small-sized problems in our EOS software, using the C, C++, and python programming languages

- Write test plan specifications for small-sized features in EOS,



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

- Worth 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 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, update that schedule weekly, and report it to the project lead

Benefits

- Regular ”Snack Bash” Social Events with food and drinks!

- Biweekly Wellness webinars plus regular Wellness Week events focused on physical, mental, spiritual and financial wellness as well as career development and social activities

- Arista Gives Back: Employee Engagement Giving Drives and Volunteer events

- Medical, Dental &
- Vision Plan Coverage

- Life Insurance, AD&D;, STD &

- LTD

- Flex Spending Accounts

- Employee Assistance Programs
- PTO &

- Paid holidays

- 401k Plan

- On-site Gym &

- Showers

- Secured Bike Lockers

- Secured Bike Lockers

- Flexible hours




- Employee Assistance Benefits that include mental health and backup child and elder care support

- Discounted lunches through WeBox for HQ employees

- Family planning benefits- Infrastructure functions related to distributed systems such as messaging, signalling, databases, and command line interface techniques

- Knowledge of UNIX or Linux

- Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills

- 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

- Ability to utilize, test, and debug packet forwarding engine and a hardware component’s vendor provided software libraries in your solutions

- 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

- Layer 2 features such as 802.1d bridging, the 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol, the 802.1ax Link Aggregation Control Protocol, the 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol, or RFC 1812 IP routing

- Knowledge of C, C++, and/or python

- 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

- Hands on experience in the design and development of ethernet bridging or routing related software or distributed systems software is desirable

- IP routing protocols, such as RIP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, or PIM

- Applied understanding of software engineering principles

- Understanding of L2/L3 networking including at least one of the following areas is desirable:

📌 Senior/Lead Software Engineer (Vancouver)
🏢 Arista
📍 Vancouver