Arista Networks

Software Engineer - SONiC

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

Poland only

From the listing details: Source listing states candidate location: "Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, pl, Remote"

Employer listed it 6 months ago · Added 2 weeks ago

Been open since 6 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.

Salary

Not stated

Location

Poland only

Timezone

CET ±2

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

What the advert says

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Working hours: Not mentioned in the advert
Where you can work from: Location eligibility not confirmed
Contract: Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for: Not mentioned in the advert
Pay: Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance.

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Poland. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, pl, Remote"

What Nomaders makes of it

Residency required in Poland
Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only

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Before you apply

Experience: employer states

Written as a requirement

“We  believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.”

Written as a nice-to-have

“Hands-on experience in the design and development of ethernet bridging or routing related software or distributed systems software is desirable.”
“Hands-on experience with enterprise or service provider class Ethernet switch/router system software development, or significant PhD level research in the area of network routing and packet forwarding is desirable.”

Questions worth asking: Nomaders interpretation

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The advert does not say whether this is employment or a contractor arrangement. Ask, as it affects tax and benefits.

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About the role

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.

At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We  believe that 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 Best Engineering Team, 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 standards of quality and performance in everything we do.

Who You’ll Work With

Arista Networks is looking for world-class software engineers to join our Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) software development team. As a core member of the SONiC team, you will be part of a fast-paced, high caliber team building and qualifying features to run the world's largest data center networks. 

The SONiC team is responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of SONiC software meant to run on various Arista switches. You will work with your fellow engineers and members of the marketing team to gather and understand the functional and technical requirements for upcoming projects. You will help write functional specifications, design specifications, test plans, and the code to bring all of these to life and work with the SONiC community to upstream the code/test changes. 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 strong and broad software engineering fundamentals, and ideally a good understanding of networking including capabilities like L2, L3, and fundamentals of commercial switching HW.

Responsibilities:

Write functional specifications and design specifications for system software to manage hardware components.

Independently implement solutions to small-sized problems in the system software using the C, C++, and python programming languages.

Write test plan specifications for small-sized features 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 routing protocol problems.

Worth 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 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 Arista’s software development environment as well as broader SONiC development.

Review and contribute to the specifications and implementations written by other team members and the SONiC community.

Help to create a schedule for the implementation and debugging tasks, update that schedule weekly, and report it to the project lead.

BSc, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering with 2+ years of related post graduate work experience

Knowledge of C, C++, and/or python.

Knowledge of UNIX or Linux.

Understanding of L2/L3 networking including at least one of the following areas is desirable:

IP routing protocols, such as RIP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, or PIM.

Requirements

·Ability to design a solution to a small-sized problem, and implement that solution without outside help. Able to work on a small team solving a medium-sized problem with limited oversight.

Benefits

No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.

How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Arista Networks, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (CET ±2).
3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

Found 17d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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