Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Engineering Productivity

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

Arista Networks is looking for world-class Site Reliability Engineers passionate about driving systems reliability and scalability to provide the best possible development experience for our 2000 person engineering team. You will be part of a fast paced, high caliber team building the internal systems and infrastructure used to build the routing and switching products driving the industry's largest data center networks. 

Arista’s Software Engineering team runs at a scale rarely found - TBs of source control, 60GB work trees with 1000s of developer branches in flight at any given time, over 400K daily build/test jobs and over 150 homegrown and cloud native services running on a 60 node Kubernetes cluster.  Operating these systems takes vigilance, responsiveness to alerts, and a steady stream of updates and bug fixes to keep things running smoothly and efficiently as well as to increase our ability to monitor, understand and visualize them. The SRE role will cover all aspects of our software development infrastructure, and may include monitoring, responding to, and enhancing alerts, working to unify and standardize our alerts, fine tuning code for scalability and performance, debugging problems and the addition of new features. You will own your projects from definition to deployment and customer interactions, and you will be responsible for the quality of everything you deliver. 

Working in Engineering Productivity (EngProd), you will collaborate and work with other engineers to design, build, scale, and operate the systems that the rest of Arista’s development teams use.  The EngProd team uses industry-standard systems like Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Grafana, Gerrit, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Google Cloud, and Redis and also internal systems that we’ve built from the ground-up to automate CI/CD, testing, analysis, and visualization.

What You’ll Do

• Keeping the production status green all the time
• Proactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts
• Build automated responses to the most common alerts or work with the rest of the EngProd team to build them
• Create and maintain the incident response runbooks working with the service dev teams
• Debug and resolve issues impacting developer user experience and infrastructure stability
• Develop patterns to support system reliability and socialize them within the EngProd team
• Review and contribute to the specifications and implementations written by other team members.
• Work with Arista’s software engineers to identify bottlenecks and limitations in our workflows, tooling, and infrastructure and provide fixes for those problems.
• Provide support for our tools and infrastructure to Arista’s development team.

Qualifications

• At least BS Computer Science or Engineering 5 years’ experience, MS Computer Science or Engineering 3 years’ experience, or equivalent work experience.
• Knowledge of one or more of Go, Python, Javascript, Shell Scripting.
• Knowledge of Linux (or UNIX).
• Experience operating and managing software systems at scale
• Strong understanding of the fundamentals of storage and networking
• Comfortable with Ansible and GitOps 
• 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.

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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.