Software Engineer ( DPDK)

Company Description

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

Who You’ll Work With

As a core member of the CloudEOS team, you will be part of a fast
paced, high-caliber team building cutting edge software products for Cloud-enabled WAN
connectivity. The team is responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of
control plane, software data plane, and management platform/APIs/services.
Arista provides an open Engineering-driven culture which fosters innovation and enables
engineers to Learn, Lead and Thrive. Our adoption of modern software tools, methodologies
and processes and emphasis on automation enables our engineers to focus their energies
on the truly complex problems and be among the most productive in the industry. Arista's products are purpose built with the scale, performance and quality required to operate in some of the most demanding environments - this provides engineers the platform and rigour to learn and gain experience in building complex, scalable software systems.

What You’ll Do

As a Software Engineer your core responsibility is to deliver new cutting edge product features. A major part of this is writing and owning design/implementation of the code that drives our products. However, the role of a Software Engineer is much bigger than ‘simply’ writing code. Software engineers work on the whole development process, including:

• Suggesting and deciding what features to build
• Driving the design and architecture
• Pushing, testing, documenting the feature
• Working alongside customers in the field if needed

Qualifications

1. Bachelor's/Master's degree in Engineering
2. 3+ years of experience working as a Systems Software Development Engineer
3. Proficiency in C++/C programming language
4. Experience with DPDK, Software Forwarding, Qos.
5. Software Development experience with Linux
6. Strong software debugging skills especially in embedded systems.
7. Experience in Network Systems Software development is a plus​