Software Engineer Packet Forwarding Engines
Software Engineer Packet Forwarding Engines
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Job Description
Who Youll Work With
Arista Networks is looking for worldclass software engineers to join our Packet Forwarding Engines (PFE) and System software development team. As a core member of the PFE software and System software team you will be part of a fastpaced high caliber team building packet forwarding engine and system software to manage the worlds most complex networking ASICs used to build the industrys largest data center networks. Your software will be a key component of Aristas Extensible Operating System (EOS) Aristas unique Linuxbased network operating system that runs on all of Aristas data center networking products.
The Packet Forwarding Engines and System software team is responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of our ASICbased forwarding engine software. You will work with your fellow engineers to understand functional and technical requirements for upcoming projects. You will 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 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.
What Youll Do
This role demands strong software engineering fundamentals and a good understanding of ASICbased packet forwarding engines hardware components (like temperature sensors fan controllers etc) board system management software how the software that manages them is implemented and the networks in which they are used. Your role will not be limited to any single aspect of managing ASICbased packet forwarding engines at Arista but cover all aspects of bringing up new hardware developing all features requiring hardware forwarding support (including lowlevel hardware drivers) testing the software and hardware and supporting our customers using the products you build.
Responsibilities:
- Write functional specifications and design specifications for smallsized packet forwarding engine features and system software to manage hardware components.
- Independently implement solutions to smallsized 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 vendorprovided software libraries in your solutions.
- Write test plan specifications for smallsized 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 Aristas 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.
Qualifications :
- BSc MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering with 2 years of related post graduate work experience
- Experience or knowledge in the following:
- 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 smallsized problem and implement that solution without outside help. Able to work on a small team solving a mediumsized problem with limited oversight.
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Additional Information :
The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $95000 to $145000. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors including skills qualifications relevant experience and work location.
The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Aristas Sales Incentive Plan which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. Employees are also entitled to benefits including medical dental vision wellbeing income protection and a Group Retirement Savings Plan. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
