Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Engineering Productivity

Arista Networks is looking for a skilled professional for our Engineering Productivity (EngProd) team to help maintain and support our rapidly expanding infrastructure and internal user base. The ideal candidate is someone who can wear many hats, is versatile and is enthusiastic about learning new technologies. As a part of the software engineering team, you will work with other team members to design, build and administer secure, scalable and fault-tolerant tools and infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.

Working in the EngProd group, you will collaborate and work with other engineers to design, build, scale, and operate the systems used by Arista’s product development teams. Thes systems are based on industry-standards, including Ansible, Artifactory, Gerrit, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Grafana, Spinnaker, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Google Cloud, Varnish, Perforce, Gerrit etc, 3rd party storage appliances, as well as internal systems developed from the ground-up to automate CI/CD, testing, analysis, and visualization.

Build, deploy safely and incrementally and operate critical production systems with focus on scalability, reliability, observability, performance and security.

Monitor, support and enhance developer experience across services.

Build automation to remove toil and efficiently operate production systems.

Proactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts and set up automated alert handling

Create and maintain the incident response runbooks.

Build and deploy new systems with scalability, reliability, and observability as primary requirements

Triage platform/infrastructural issues and help Arista software engineers in their triages. Engage with 3rd party vendor support.

Deploy new systems in a staged manner

Write postmortem documents and build solutions to avoid incidents from repeating.

Plan and communicate maintenance windows on production systems.

Work with Arista’s product development teams to identify infrastructural issues that are causing bottlenecks and limitations in their workflows. Design and implement solutions to resolve them.

Survey and adopt best practices around infrastructure/platform to maintain secure, scalable and fault-tolerant systems.

Implement solutions to scale the systems

Implement fault-tolerance and performance to improve availability of the systems

Study the design and sufficient implementation details of OSS systems for better triage and fix resolution.

Essential to have all of the following skills

At least BSc Computer Science or Engineering + 5 years’ experience, MS Computer Science or Engineering + 5 years’ experience, or equivalent work experience.

Knowledge of one or more of Go, Python, shell scripting to be able to implement medium complexity automation workflows.

Knowledge of Linux (or UNIX) from administration and debugging perspective

Hands-on experience in operating software systems (infrastructure, complex applications etc) at scale

Experience in server provisioning (esp from storage and networking perspective).

Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills

Experience with infrastructure-as-code

Desirable to have one/more of the following skills

Experience managing databases - mariadb, postgres, mongodb etc

Experience with docker and virtualization technologies - kvm, qemu, kata-containers etc

Experience managing monitoring stack - Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Grafana, Thanos etc

Experience managing ElasticSearch clusters

Experience managing Artifactory, docker registry etc

Experience managing CI/CD systems like ArgoCD, Spinnaker etc

Experience managing version control systems like Perforce, Gerrit etc

Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks like Ansible

Experience managing large Java applications

Experience in storage infrastructure management eg: NAS, SAN, Ceph etc

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.