Senior/Lead Software Engineer, Layer1
Who You’ll Work With
You will work on software that manages the physical layer, where packets meet the outside world. Your responsibilities include:
- Interface with customers, product management and hardware engineers to come up with innovative new Layer1 features.
- Arcitect, 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.
What You’ll Do
You will:
- 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.
Qualifications
- 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.
Compensation Information
The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $140,000 to $200,000.
Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location.
The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. US-based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location
Additional Information
Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.