Customer Platform Engineer

Company Description

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 Description

Who You'll Work With
We are hiring an accomplished mid-to-senior-level software engineer to build and maintain the core platform that underpins our customer-deployed product. This role centers on leveraging Nix to create a reproducible, low-maintenance, and reliable foundation for our services. The ideal candidate works with high autonomy and scrupulous attention to detail. You will join a collaborative, distributed team dedicated to shipping correct and reliable software.

What You'll Do
As a key member of our platform team, your work will involve:

• Designing, building, and evolving the services and infrastructure that constitute our customer-deployed platform.
• Using Nix to orchestrate the entire lifecycle of our software, from development environments to customer-facing releases (more focused on the customer-facing platform).
• Improving the observability, scalability, and security of our platform through meticulous engineering and automation.
• Participating in our culture of service, open-source involvement, and rigorous collaboration.

Qualifications

This position is for an accomplished mid-to-senior-level engineer who has demonstrated relevant experience, perhaps through a strong open-source portfolio.

Required:

• Proficiency in Nix and the NixOS ecosystem.
  • Your experience should go beyond basic usage to include packaging complex software, creating custom modules, and managing deployments.
• Experience building or maintaining distributed systems.
  • You should be comfortable reasoning about the challenges inherent in a microservices architecture.
    • A strong understanding of Linux systems, including administration, networking, and containerization.
    • Experience with principles and tools for CI/CD, performance monitoring, and observability.

Preferred:

• A keen interest in typed functional programming. While not required, proficiency in a language like Haskell or Scala is a major plus.
• Familiarity with on-premises infrastructure and self-hosted services.

Values

• We value compassion
  • We believe our mission is one of service to others, whether that is protecting our  customers from harm or empowering other developers to do work they are proud of.
• We value humility
  • Humility matters to everyone on the engineering team in Arista NDR. We accept the sobering reality that we as humans make mistakes, forget things easily, and have over-inflated confidence in our grasp of complexity. We value humility because we think it leads to better solutions (social or technological) and better understanding.
• We value reliability
  • We believe that software should free people to do their most creative work. Therefore, we value low maintenance software and technology that empowers us to write it.

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.