Software Engineer (Platform/Routing/Switching)

Arista Networks; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Arista Networks in Pune, India is seeking a Software Engineer with 6–10 years of hands-on experience to join our data‑center networking team. You will design and implement features across the software stack, contributing to architecture decisions and collaborating with hardware teams.

The ideal candidate has strong CS fundamentals, expert knowledge of algorithms, and proficiency in C/C++ and Python, with experience debugging embedded systems and working on forwarding ASICs, FPGAs, and network

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of hands-on experience with designs and implementations in a strong product‑engineering environment.
• Strong engineering and Computer Science fundamentals.
• Experience with algorithms and software architecture.

Responsibilities

• Deliver features and own code across the software stack for data center products.
• Drive design and architecture decisions in collaboration with hardware teams.
• Work with customers and field teams when needed to refine requirements.

Skills

C/C++/Python

Algorithms

Software architecture

Embedded debugging

Forwarding ASICs

FPGAs

Network Processors

Data center networking

Strong communication

Job description

Arista Networks is the leader in software driven networking solutions for today’s largest Data Center (DC), Cloud, Internet/WAN, Service Provider (SP) and Campus environments. Arista has over 7500 customers ranging from the largest cloud providers, to healthcare, government, carrier, finance, education, and production web/SaaS companies. Arista's products are the foundation underpinning much of modern society's operations.

Arista has ambitious plans and an unprecedented opportunity for growth and we are looking for many more engineers and designers to join us in building and innovating the world's networks. Arista is a profitable, publicly quoted company with revenues of over $3.5B with a culture of invention, quality, respect, and fun

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As a Software Engineer your core responsibility is to deliver new product features. A major part of this is writing and owning the code that drives our products. However, the role of a Software Engineer is much bigger than ‘simply’ writing code. Software engineers work on the whole development process, includin

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Are you right for this ro

le?This is an interesting and exciting opportunity to be a part of the software development team that is redefining Data Center switching. For success at Arista all you need

is:· 6-10 years of hands‑on experience with designs and implementations in a strong product‑engineering environm

ent· Strong engineering and Computer Science fundament

als

· Extensive background in algorithms and strong software architecture ski

lls· Fluency in one of C/C++/Python programm

ing
Good to have qualificat

ions· Strong software debugging skills especially in embedded syst

ems.· Experience with software development for the forwarding ASICs, FPGAs, Network Processors

etc.. Experience with hardware abstraction l

ayer. Datapath forwarding for ACLs, QoS, Unicast, Multicast, EVPN MPLS, VXLAN, OAM

etc· Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environ

ment· Experience working through the complete software development life cycle right from requirements gathering to deliver the fully developed feat

ure.. Experience in Network Systems Software development is a

plus