Job Description

Arista Networks is seeking candidates to join the Professional Services (Software Services) team for an internship or industrial placement.  This team is a global team of software engineers working to deliver high quality and robust software to help Arista’s customers achieve their goals and solve real-life networking problems.  The team’s work can be divided into four main areas: 

• Automation and testing: Using the latest automation techniques and tools

• Cloud services: Implementing scalable, flexible and cloud agnostic solutions for internal and external customers

• CloudVision applications: Building applications that leverage telemetry and CloudVision’s open architecture

• EOS extensions: Exploiting EOS’ extensibility to write software that runs directly on Arista switches

Qualifications

To undertake an internship within the Arista Professional Services, you will be required to be:

• in the penultimate year of the degree programme.

• studying towards obtaining an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic & Electrical Engineering or similar courses. 

Programming Experience

Expertise with some of these languages/frameworks: 

• Python

• Go

• C/C++

• Rust

• Java

• Javascript (React.js, Node.js)

• Web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, Webpack, and Nginx)

Technical Knowledge

Algorithms, Programming, Software Development, CI Tools (e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab), IP Networking, Linux/Unix, Embedded Systems.

Other Skills

• Personable with excellent communication skills.

• Great problem solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills.

• Keen intellect with willingness to keep learning and developing.

What will I do during my internship?

• Code, test, debug software applications, and experiment with different design elements and patterns. 

• Collaborate with team members to develop new software or extend functionality of existing applications.

• Implement fixes that are in line with Software Engineer practices based on code reviews.

• Work in all phases of the software development life cycle.

• Shadow other engineers on their daily tasks and undertake work under mentors’ supervision.

• Establish and achieve goals using sprint scrum methodologies and contribute to the retrospective meetings.

• Prepare and deliver presentations to technical (and potentially non-technical) audiences.

 What will I get out of my internship?

• Gain experience that will equip you for the rest of your degree and for a professional engineering career.

• Develop collaborations and support peers in a professional engineering environment.

• Receive regular constructive feedback on your work.

• Interact and liaise with your mentor to successfully contribute to projects and engineering engagements. 

• Liaise with customers and audiences with technical and non-technical backgrounds. 

• Improve your soft skills: time management, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, documentation, teamwork, etc.