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.
Job DescriptionWho You’ll Work With
Arista Networks is looking for a skilled professional for our Engineering Productivity (EngProd) team to help maintain and support our rapidly expanding infrastructure and internal user base. The ideal candidate is someone who can wear many hats, is versatile and is enthusiastic about learning new technologies. As a part of the software engineering team, you will work with other team members to design, build and administer secure, scalable and fault-tolerant tools and infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.
Working in the EngProd group, you will collaborate and work with other engineers to design, build, scale, and operate the systems used by Arista’s product development teams. These systems are based on industry-standards, including Ansible, Artifactory, Gerrit, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Grafana, Spinnaker, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Google Cloud, Varnish, Perforce, Gerrit etc, 3rd party storage appliances, as well as internal systems developed from the ground-up to automate CI/CD, testing, analysis, and visualization.
What You'll Do
- Build, deploy safely and incrementally and operate critical production systems with focus on scalability, reliability, observability, performance and security.
- Monitor, support and enhance developer experience across services.
- Build automation to remove toil and efficiently operate production systems.
- Proactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts and set up automated alert handling
- Create and maintain the incident response runbooks.
- Triage platform/infrastructural issues and help Arista software engineers in their triages. Engage with 3rd party vendor support.
- Write postmortem documents and build solutions to avoid incidents from repeating.
- Plan and communicate maintenance windows on production systems.
- Work with Arista’s product development teams to identify infrastructural issues that are causing bottlenecks and limitations in their workflows. Design and implement solutions to resolve them.
- Survey and adopt best practices around infrastructure/platform to maintain secure, scalable and fault-tolerant systems.
- Study the design and sufficient implementation details of OSS systems for better triage and fix resolution.
Essential Skills
- At least BSc Computer Science or Engineering + 3 years’ experience, MS Computer Science or Engineering + 3 years’ experience, or equivalent work experience.
- Knowledge of one or more of Go, Python, shell scripting to be able to implement medium complexity automation workflows.
- Knowledge of Linux (or UNIX) from administration and debugging perspective
- Hands-on experience in operating software systems (infrastructure, complex applications etc) at scale
- Experience in server provisioning (esp from storage and networking perspective).
- Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code
Desired Skills
- Experience managing databases - mariadb, postgres, mongodb etc
- Experience with docker and virtualization technologies - kvm, qemu, kata-containers etc
- Experience managing monitoring stack - Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Grafana, Thanos etc
- Experience managing ElasticSearch clusters
- Experience managing Artifactory, docker registry etc
- Experience managing CI/CD systems like ArgoCD, Spinnaker etc
- Experience managing version control systems like Perforce, Gerrit etc
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks like Ansible
- Experience managing large Java applications
- Experience in storage infrastructure management eg: NAS, SAN, Ceph etc
“Please note: We are not engaging external recruiters for this role. Only direct applications will be considered.”
Australian work Rights
Only candidates with Australian Citizenship, Australian Permanent Residency or otherwise a demonstrable legal entitlement to work in Australia for the duration of employment, will be considered for roles in Australia. Please review open roles in other geographical regions of Arista if you have complementary skills.
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Skills Required
- BSc Computer Science or Engineering + 3 years experience, MS + 3 years, or equivalent work experience
- Demonstrable legal entitlement to work in Australia (Australian citizen or permanent resident or equivalent)
- Proficiency in one or more: Go, Python, shell scripting
- Strong Linux/UNIX administration and debugging skills
- Hands-on experience operating software systems and infrastructure at scale
- Experience in server provisioning, including storage and networking perspectives
- Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code
- Experience managing databases such as MariaDB, Postgres, MongoDB
- Experience with containerization and virtualization (Docker, KVM, QEMU, Kata-containers)
- Experience managing monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Grafana, Thanos)
- Experience managing Elasticsearch clusters
- Experience managing Artifactory, Docker registries, CI/CD systems (ArgoCD, Spinnaker)
- Experience with version control systems like Perforce and Gerrit
- Experience with large Java application operations
- Experience in storage infrastructure management (NAS, SAN, Ceph)
Arista Networks Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arista Networks and has not been reviewed or approved by Arista Networks.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is positioned as generous, including unlimited PTO, paid holidays, and flexible hours with hybrid options. Parental leave is also included, supporting time off needs beyond standard vacation.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is a notable component of rewards through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan with a discount. This structure can materially increase total compensation when stock performance is favorable.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Everyday perks and wellness supports are broad, including on-site gym/showers, secured bike storage, stocked break rooms, discounted lunches, wellness webinars, and social events. Family-planning benefits add to lifestyle and wellbeing coverage.
Arista Networks Insights
What We Do
Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software driven cloud networking solutions for large datacenter storage and computing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds from 10 to 400 gigabits per second, redefine scalability, agility and resilience. Arista has shipped more than 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding member of the 25/50GbE consortium. Arista Networks products are available worldwide directly and through partners.
