- Arista Networks is looking for world-class software engineers to join our IP Routing Protocols development team. As a core member of the IP Routing Protocols team, you will be part of a fast paced, high caliber team building routing protocol software to run the worlds largest data center networks. Your software will be a key component of Aristas Extensible Operating System (EOS), Aristas unique, Linux-based network operating system that runs on all of Aristas data center networking products.
- The Routing Protocols team is responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of our routing protocol software. You will work with your fellow engineers and members of the marketing team to gather 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 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.
What You'll Do
This role demands a strong and broad software engineering background, and positive understanding of IP routing protocols, how they are implemented, and the networks in which they are used. Your role will not be limited to a single aspect of IP routing at Arista, but cover all of our unicast and multicast protocols for both IPv4 and IPv6.
Responsibilities
- Write functional specifications and design specifications for small-sized routing protocol features.
- Independently implement solutions to small-sized problems in our routing protocol software, using the C, C++, and python programming languages.
- Write test plan specifications for small-sized routing protocol features, and implement automated test programs to ex