Technical Leader, Full Stack Software Engineer

At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them : their students, patients, customers, and businesses.

We're making networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works. We maintain a positive relationship with other Cisco and business units and groups, that gives us the stability and resources of a larger company without sacrificing our startup vibe.

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.

Please note that this position requires commuting to one of the following offices up to two times per month : San Francisco, Bay Area OR San Jose, CA OR New York, NY or Chicago, IL.

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 :

• 8+ years of experience working on large scale systems for cloud-connected hardware devices preferably networking devices.
• 3+ years of experience in coding web backend technologies, like Node.js, Django, Ruby on Rails, Scala or Go and rolling them out safely to customers using feature flags, A / B tests etc.
• Hands-on experience making a lot of architectural and system design choices, are able 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

Life at Cisco Meraki

We are passionate about building real products that our customers love . We are confident you will love it here.

As a Cisco Meraki employee you can expect :

• An encouraging and lively environment and a team that values your contributions.
• A lot of opportunities for professional and personal growth via employee-led groups. Check out one of our groups We Are Cisco on Twitter X
• Delicious catered meals every day and fully-stocked kitchens and all you can eat snacks.
• Paid time off to volunteer, and much more.

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.

LI-Hybrid

Compensation Range : $126,500 $241,700 USD

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and / or Canada :

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.

S. and / or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only;

employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training.

Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday.

Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO.

We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components.

For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%.

Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.