Application Development Engineer (ADE) - Backend

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Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $7 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience. Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe 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 the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and 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 quality and performance standards in everything we do.

Job Description

Who You'll Work With

Arista Networks is looking for a Software Developer to build and implement software tools and Machine Learning models. The ADE will work with other Developers throughout the software development life cycle.

The role necessitates Team Player abilities with a keen eye for detail and problem-solving skills. If you also have experience in Agile frameworks and popular backend coding languages (python, golang), we’d like to meet you.

The goal will be to build efficient programs and systems that serve user needs.

What You'll Do
• Create software to address specific customer needs.
• Create software for internal use.
• Rapidly create proof of concept projects.
• Work on open-source development projects.
• Provide technical support for products developed by the TAC Tools
• Continued training to maintain expertise.
• Excellent written skills.
• Regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment.
• Maintain professional relationships with teammates, partners and clients.
• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications
• Integrate software components and third-party programs
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade the existing systems
• Recommend and execute improvements
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from a four-year college or university or related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 4 to 8 years experienced
• Attention to detail
• Background in Linux, Unix, C/C++, Golang
• Understanding of complete backend workflow for web apps
• Experience building third-party software integration and API’s
• Release engineering skills (pip, rpm, deb, rvm)
• Experience with CI platforms (Jenkins)
• Working Experience in relational databases (MariaDB, Postgres)
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodology
• Creative thinker and team player
• Should be ready to adopt new technologies
• Excellent communication skills
• Resourcefulness and troubleshooting aptitude
• Nice to Have:
• Working experience in docker and K8s deployments
• Working Experience in AWS/GCP
• Working experience with Network technologies

Additional Information

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.