The Juniper M.E.N.T.E.E: Empowering New Engineers

Episode 1 of this video series focuses on three engineers at Juniper Networks to discuss career opportunities and mentoring. Our Junos Engineering team includes 21 principal engineers and 23 distinguished engineers. Here, we talk to AE Natarajan, recently promoted to EVP of Engineering and Chief Development Officer while he interviews Distinguished Engineer, Phil Shafer, and Software Engineer, Sudhir Vitta.

1:44 What is the most important part about being a mentor?
2:15 What is the most important thing you get from having a mentor?
3:10 As an engineer, what kind of impact do you want to leave on the company and the industry?
4:00 What advice do you have for those early in their careers?
4:30 What visionaries have inspired you?
5:35 What skills has your mentor helped you build?
7:28 What is the most inspiring thing you have seen at Juniper and where are they going?
8:35 What are some of the biggest challenges you have grown from?

Hear from our software engineers about how their careers have helped solve customer problems, build infrastructures, and learn new things. They discuss things like openConfig, streaming, telemetry, and more.

Are you interested in our Junos Software Engineering Team?

• Our team’s innovation is fueled by global collaboration and diversity of thought. Every team member plays a unique role that contributes to the bigger picture. Join us and play the part only you can play — while learning firsthand from some of the industry’s pioneers.
• From routing to cloud services, you’ll find countless opportunities to expand your thinking and build your career with the Junos Engineering team. Not to brag, but our technology helped fuel the rapid growth of the internet in the early 2000s by decoupling the data plane of an IP router from its control plane.
• Today, we’re still leaders in our industry across our technology offerings, helping to define the standards by participating in groups like IETF and Open Config.
• These days we’re focused on shifting paradigms with scale-out architectures, disaggregated and cloud-native functions, and lean and open-source compliant OS stacks. We’re the backbone behind 20 of the top 20 cloud providers, 9 of the top 10 hosting companies, and 7 of the top 10 SaaS companies.

Learn more: https://www.juniper.net/careers