Intern Software Engineer - C/C++

    ~$50,499 - $93,785Market Estimate
    Poland
    Full-Time
    Entry (0-2 yrs)
    Engineering & Development
    Internship
    Posted on September 11, 2026

    Arista Networks is looking for great Intern/Graduate Engineer for the Platform team.

    • You decide which team to join
    • A personal mentor for the duration of your internship
    • Arista Prep course (2 lectures/tutorials/workshops, 2 days a week, over 6 weeks)
    • Arista U weekly – Arista ‘University’ lecture on new technologies, products, tools
    • Hack-a-thon – participate in twice yearly global hack-a-thons (depends on internship dates)
    • Full time permanent job offer (end of studies internships) prior to the end of the internship

    Who You’ll Work With

    Operating right where hardware meets software, the Platform team builds the foundation for our networking ASICs and supporting infrastructure. We write the critical code that drives ultra-low-latency, high-performance networking and guarantees rock-solid hardware reliability.

    What You’ll Do

    • Writing Linux user space and kernel code to allow 32-bit drivers to DMA 64-bit virtual memory spaces using both Intel and AMD IOMMU controller.
    • Accessing ASIC registers over SPI bus, SMbus, PCIe and I2C, to implement high resolution timers (sub-100ns accuracy) and read ASIC hardware specifications to gather near-real-time information on large numbers of packet flows and to generate network congestion statistics.
    • Developing configuration management services using Go and Python to support YANG, OpenConfig, NETCONF and RESTCONF over gRPC, ssh and ssl for standardised switch configuration, combined with tools like git, Gerrit, Jenkins, Slack and Trello.
    • Developing routing protocol agents (for BGP, OSPF, ISIS) in C/C++ within a Linux embedded environment. Coding of fault-tolerant, concurrent agents capable of handling the demands of future data centers where high performance and high availability are basic requirements. Contributing to a fully automated, developer owned, Python based, continuous test harness with 100s of devices under test at any one moment.

    Company:  Arista Networks

    Manufacturer of networking hardware and software for cloud data centers and enterprise environments.
    1001-5000 employees
    Hardware
    HQ: United States