Software Engineer - Platform Team - C++ on Linux
Posted about 4 hours ago
Job Description
You will work with the Platform team who work closest to the hardware and programming chips.
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
Are you right for this role?
This is an interesting and exciting opportunity to be a part of the software development team that is redefining Data Center switching. For success at Arista all you need is:
- Strong industry experience of 3+ years
- Extensive background in algorithms and strong software architecture skills
- Fluency in C/C++ programming
- Hands-on experience with designs and implementations in a strong product-engineering environment.
Qualifications
- Strong software debugging skills especially in embedded systems.
- Experience with software development for the forwarding ASICs, FPGAs, Network Processors etc
- Experience with hardware abstraction layer
- Datapath forwarding for ACLs, QoS, Unicast, Multicast, EVPN MPLS, VXLAN, OAM etc
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment
- Experience working through the complete software development life cycle right from requirements gathering to deliver the fully developed feature.
- Experience in Network Systems Software development is a plus
Qualifications
- Strong engineering and Computer Science fundamentals.
- Extensive background in algorithms and strong software architecture skills.
- 5+ years fluency in one of C/C++/Python programming.
- Hands-on experience with designs and implementations in a strong product-engineering environment.
Additional Information
This role is a B2B 12 month rolling contract.
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Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large data center/AI, campus and routing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack. visit https://www.arista.com. Additional information and resources can be found at: www.arista.com www.twitter.com/aristanetworks www.facebook.com/AristaNW www.youtube.com/user/AristaNetworks
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