Senior/Lead Software Engineer, EOS Routing (Austin TX or 100% Remote)

The EOS Routing team is responsible for developing IP routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, PIM, etc), MPLS signaling protocols (LDP, RSVP, etc ), and DC and SP technologies like VxLAN, Segment Routing and EVPN. This team has broad ownership of developing software for the control plane, software datapath and the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) for managing unicast and multicast routing for IPv4 and IPv6 as part of Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS). This team is also responsible for developing innovative routing features based on programmable RPC/REST APIs, SDK and monitoring of routing state through protocols and streaming telemetry. This is a global team spanning multiple geographies working on cutting edge software that is deployed in the largest Data Center (DC), Cloud provider, Internet/WAN and Service Provider (SP) environments with a constant eye on scale and performance.

Arista provides an open Engineering-driven culture which fosters innovation and enables engineers to Learn, Lead and Thrive. Our adoption of modern software tools and processes and strong focus on automation enables our engineers to be amongst 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 in the industry. This provides engineers the platform and rigor to learn and gain experience in building complex, distributed and scalable software systems. Arista engineers collaborate and work seamlessly across various feature areas to deliver top-notch network solutions.

Responsibilities

• Understand requirements from customers, product managers and field engineers, and write functional specifications
  
  

• Architect, design, develop and maintain Layer 3/Routing protocols, solutions and features using C, C++ and Python
  
  

• Author test plans, build automated tests and infrastructure to test the features.
  
  

• Work with support engineers and customers to troubleshoot and resolve problems in their networks
  
  

• Own all aspects of development and delivery of software
  
  

• 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
  
  

• Work with the System Test Engineers to analyze problems found in their tests and provide fixes for those problems
  
  
  
  

• 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
  
  

• Proficiency in C or C++ and Python
  
  

• Software development experience with Linux
  
  

• Understanding and ability to apply software engineering principles
  
  

• Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
  
  

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a small team environment
  
  

• Ability to design a solution and implement features independently
  
  

• Hands on experience developing networking or distributed systems software is a plus
  
  

• Knowledge and experience in networking protocols and technologies such as BGP, IS-IS, LDP, OSPF, PIM, RSVP, EVPN, Segment Routing, VPWS, VPLS, LDP Pseudowires is a plus
  
  
  
  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.