Site Reliability Engineer – Engineering Productivity

Arista Networks

Site Reliability Engineer in Engineering Productivity for Arista Networks. Building and operating scalable, secure infrastructure and tools in a hybrid cloud environment.

Posted 5/24/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇪 IrelandMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoLinuxPythonShell ScriptingUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build, deploy safely and incrementally, and operate critical production systems with focus on scalability, reliability, observability, performance and security.
Build automation to remove toil and proactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts with automated handling.
Create and maintain incident response runbooks, triage platform and infrastructural issues, and write postmortem documents to prevent recurring incidents.
Plan and communicate maintenance windows on production systems while engaging with 3rd party vendor support as needed.
Work with Arista's product development teams to identify infrastructural bottlenecks and design solutions to enhance developer experience and workflow efficiency.
Survey and adopt best practices around infrastructure and platform design to maintain secure, scalable and fault-tolerant systems, including studying OSS system implementations for better triage and resolution.

Requirements

What you’ll need

At least BSc Computer Science or Engineering + 3 years’ experience, MS Computer Science or Engineering + 3 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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoPythonshell scriptingLinuxinfrastructure-as-codeserver provisioningsoftware troubleshootingautomation workflowsproduction systemsincident response

Soft Skills

problem solvingcommunicationcollaborationengagement with vendorsworkflow efficiency

Certifications

BSc Computer ScienceBSc EngineeringMS Computer ScienceMS Engineering