Software Engineer (Hardware Tools and Infrastructure)

Who You’ll Work With

You will collaborate with team members to design, build, and manage secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant tools and infrastructure. 

What You’ll Do

The Arista Hardware team is responsible for designing and delivering the most technologically advanced networking equipment. As a Software Engineer, you will have the unique opportunity to work on a groundbreaking system that will serve the entire hardware team to deliver and grow our multi-billion dollar business line. You will be developing tools and processes focused on improving the productivity of the whole Hardware Engineers in the organization.

You will drive the design and development of tools such as parsers and dashboards which aid in automated hardware verification. We are obsessed with continuously improving the level of automation in all hardware design areas. You will be responsible for continuously improving this automation infrastructure, maintaining the quality of our code through the code development of development and review processes, and mentor others in these efforts. Please note that this position is not eligible for remote work and requires the candidate to be local to the Bay Area.

• Create various tools integrating them to the Arista unified ecosystem. Support agile manufacturing by designing and developing tools that dynamically provide configuration information to tests, and automate manual, people-driven processes into data-driven workflows.
• Build automated a closed-loop hardware testing infrastructure for Arista network switches, leveraging automation code written in Python and Go, by continuously improving test-coverage for development and field issues.
• Define and drive quality code development processes to align the team.
• Work with directly with hardware team customers to identify and develop key efforts that can drastically improve hardware development process in terms of quality and efficiency

You will be responsible for:

• Building, integrating, and maintaining tools and infrastructure to support a rapidly growing team of 100+ engineers.
• Aligning team on efforts to determine priorities with the greatest impact to the hardware team (including the tools team itself) 
• Monitoring and reporting of tools and infrastructure to ensure ongoing tools quality.
• Writing and validating high-quality code adhering to Arista code development standards.
• Documenting and validating developed features comprehensively.
• Providing support to hardware team customers.