Technical Leader, Backend Engineer

Applications are accepted until further notice

At Cisco Meraki, our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. To provide best-in-class technologies to our customers, we've created an unrivaled company culture for our employees. One that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive and provides employees with the autonomy to develop technology that's intuitive, secure, and accessible for everyone.

Our customers use the Meraki web dashboard and programmable APIs to monitor, configure, and automate critical IT infrastructure that serves tens of millions of people every single day. The Cloud Monitoring team is responsible for bringing Meraki Dashboard features to the Cisco Catalyst family of switches and wireless products.

What you will do:

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable delightful user experiences and measurable business growth
• Work very closely with Cisco device platform engineering teams to design, develop, optimize highly performant and reliable enterprise class solutions
• Ensure reliability, performance and operational excellence of these systems by adding tests, telemetry and alerting systems
• Take complete ownership from conception to production release by demonstrating your ability to influence, facilitate, and work collaboratively across teams.
• Partner with EM/PM and other collaborators so define teams direction based on engineering and business priorities

You are an ideal candidate if you:

• 7+ years of experience working on large scale systems for cloud-connected hardware devices preferably networking devices.
• 3+ years of experience of professional coding web backend technologies, like Ruby on Rails or similar and proficiency in Scala/Ruby/Java and rolling services out safely to customers using feature flags, A/B tests etc.
• Hands-on experience making architectural and system design choices. Ability to communicate the trade offs and coach other team members
• Demonstrate Project Leadership through defining well-scoped stepping stones for a project(s) based on loosely defined business problems and can identify metrics to track project progress
• Experienced with troubleshooting and debugging distributed systems using data driven approach
• Thrive in a fast paced agile engineering team and are excited to tackle open-ended problems across the stack by rolling your sleeves up and working in all layers of the stack!

Bonus points for:

• Strong ability to write quality code with test coverage in Java/Scala, Ruby on Rails
• Bring strong networking technologies (IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, VLAN, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, etc.) and cloud scale system development experience
• Experience with production operations (CI/CD, oncall, monitoring/alerting, incident postmortems, writing oncall playbooks)
• You’ve worked with relational or time-series databases before, either directly via SQL or an ORM and proficient in troubleshooting database issues

Why Cisco Meraki

Cisco Meraki, a division of Cisco Networking, is a cloud-managed IT company and leader in cloud-controlled Wi-Fi, routing, and security. Our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. To provide best-in-class technologies to our customers, we’ve created an unrivaled company culture for our employees. One where diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences shape our work and fuel our evolution. One that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive and provides employees with the autonomy to develop technology that’s accessible and secure for everyone.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.