Software Engineering

Arista Networks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 111,350 - 150,650; Full time

Job summary

Arista Networks seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join CloudVision-as-a-Service (CVaaS) in Santa Clara, CA. You will design and operate scalable, reliable cloud services with emphasis on automation, observability, and resilient deployments in a Kubernetes-native stack.

The role requires 5+ years in software engineering, strong Python or Go, and experience deploying distributed databases in a SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering experience.
• Experience deploying distributed database systems for a SaaS environment.
• Proficiency in Python, Golang, and Bash.

Responsibilities

• Drive and lead projects in data platform architecture, capacity planning, and observability.
• Improve operational processes by increasing automation and reducing toil.
• Lead sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems in a follow-the-sun on-call model.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed databases

Python

Golang

Bash scripting

CI/CD

Education

BS/MS in CS or related

Tools

Ansible

Pulumi

Kubernetes

GCP

GKE

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – CloudVision as a Service (CVaaS)

• Full-time

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.

Who You’ll Work With

We’re looking for Site Reliability Engineers to join our growing Arista’s CloudVision-as-a-Service (CVaaS) global SRE team.

SREs at Arista combine strong software engineering background, systems architecture knowledge, with passion for operating production systems at scale. We are responsible for our global CloudVision service fleet, ensuring scalability, reliability, and stability. You’ll have firsthand experience in being part of a rapidly growing product with a passionate group of engineers that unapologetically put product reliability and customer experience first. We deeply believe in building highly automated and self-sustaining environments, prioritizing safe and efficient operations that leverage cutting edge technologies and tools.

Arista’s CloudVision is an enterprise network management and streaming telemetry SaaS offering. CloudVision stack is built entirely Kubernetes-native. Familiarity with GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) is preferred. Our technical stack includes but not limited to: Golang, Python, Ansible/Pulumi, Bash. You will be expected to develop, operate, and work with many different types of databases, both directly on Kubernetes or leveraging managed DB products. We integrate with many different Open Source Software (OSS) projects that both power our microservices stack, monitoring infrastructure, and much more.

What You’ll Do

As an SRE you’ll have the chance to be drive, develop, and lead projects in any of the following areas:

• Data Platform (NetDL) Architecture and Performance
• Capacity Planning
• Autoscaling
• Disaster Recovery
• Observability
• Change Management - CI/CD
• Cost Optimizations
• Instructure and Cloud-First Application Security

You will also be joining globally distributed, “follow the sun model” on-call team where you’ll:

• Continuously improve operational processes by adding automation
• Leading sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a relevant experience subject.
• 5+ years software engineering experience.
• Experience developing or managing deployments of distributed database systems or scale out applications for a SaaS environment.
• Proficiency in Python, Golang, and/or other languages. Expected to be comfortable in Bash and/or other scripting languages.

Compensation Information

The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $101,000 to $161,000. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location. The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. US-based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.