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At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.\n Who You’ll Work With\nYou will work with the Platform team who work closest to the hardware and programming chips.\nWhat You’ll Do\nAs a Software Engineer your core responsibility is to deliver new cutting edge product features. A major part of this is writing and owning design/implementation of 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, including:\nSuggesting and deciding what features to build\nDriving the design and architecture\nPushing, testing, documenting the feature\nWorking alongside customers in the field if needed\nAre you right for this role?\nThis is an interesting and exciting opportunity to be a part of the software development team that is redefining Data Center switching. 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