Software Engineer – Packet Forwarding Engines
| Company | Arista Networks |
|---|---|
| Location | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Mid Level |
Requirements
- BSc, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering with 3+ years of related post graduate work experience
- Experience or knowledge in 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 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
Responsibilities
- Write functional specifications and design specifications for small-sized packet forwarding engine features and system software to manage hardware components.
- Independently implement solutions to small-sized 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 vendor-provided software libraries in your solutions.
- Write test plan specifications for small-sized 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 Arista’s 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.
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.