Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – CloudVision as a Service (CVaaS) at Arista Networks in Vancouver, BC, Canada

Job description

• Job Description
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Service Network Architecture
• 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

Requirements

• 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.

Skills

Required

• Python
• Golang
• Bash
• GCP
• GKE
• Kubernetes
• Ansible/Pulumi
• CI/CD
• Distributed databases
• SaaS environment

Benefits

• The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $95,000 to $145,000. 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.