Backend Systems Engineer

Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $8 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience. Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe 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 the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and 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 quality and performance standards in everything we do.

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

CloudVision is Arista’s enterprise network management and streaming telemetry SaaS offering, serving the world’s largest Financials, Media and Entertainment, Health Care, and Cloud companies. As we continue to scale the service and expand into new markets, we’re looking to grow the team with experienced Software Engineers anchored by our Bangalore and Pune team.

CloudVision’s core infrastructure is a scale-out distributed system providing real-time and historical access to the full network state, along with frameworks for building advanced analytics. It’s written in Go and leverages open source technologies like HBase, ClickHouse, ElasticSearch, and Kafka under the covers. We’re constantly investing in scaling out the platform and building richer analytics capabilities in the infrastructure.

On top of this core platform, we are building network management and analytics applications to fully automate today’s enterprise network, from CI / CD pipelines for network automation to advanced analytics and remediation for network assurance.

What You’ll Do

As a backend software engineer at Arista, you own your project end-to-end. You and your project team will work with product management and customers to define the requirements and design the architecture. You’ll build the backend, write automated tests, and get it deployed into production via our CD pipeline. As a senior member of the team, you’ll also be expected to help mentor and grow new team members. This role demands a strong and broad software engineering background, and you won’t be limited to any single aspect of the product or development process.

Qualifications

• BS / MS degree in Computer Science and 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of one or more programming languages (Go, Python, Java)
• Experience developing distributed systems or scaling out applications for a SaaS environment
• Experience developing scalable backend systems in Go is a plus
• Experience with network monitoring, network protocols, machine learning or data analytics is a plus

Additional Information

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.