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About the role

  • Senior/Lead Software Engineer developing Layer1 software for managing physical network connectivity at Arista Networks. Collaborating with customers and hardware teams to innovate and troubleshoot network components.

Responsibilities

  • Interface with customers, product management and hardware engineers to come up with innovative new Layer1 features.
  • Architect, design and manage the development of these features.
  • Develop and maintain features using C, C++ and Python, review and contribute to functional and design specifications.
  • Build automated tests and test infrastructure to test the features.
  • Work with hardware and manufacturing teams to bring new Layer1 components like Phys and Transceivers to market.
  • Collaborate with hardware engineers to design optimal software control interfaces for managing Layer1 components.
  • Provide technical leadership across features, projects and tools.
  • Work with Customer Support Engineers and customers to analyze, mitigate and fix problems in customer networks.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • BS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 8 years experience, or MS Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 6 years experience, or Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering + 3 years experience, or equivalent work experience
  • Expert knowledge of C or C++ and Python.
  • Knowledge of UNIX or Linux
  • Knowledge of digital communication technologies like modulation and signal encoding schemes is a plus.
  • Understanding of IP networking and/or distributed systems is a plus
  • Experience working with low level hardware components is a plus
  • Applied understanding of software engineering principles
  • Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to design a solution and implement features independently.
  • Ability to work in small teams.

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • wellbeing
  • income protection
  • Group Retirement Savings Plan

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$120,000 - CA$195,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Distributed SystemsLinuxPythonUnix

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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