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Cisco Meraki

Technical Leader, Backend Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Senior level
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Senior level
As a Technical Leader, Backend Engineer at Cisco Meraki, you'll build scalable distributed solutions, ensure system reliability and performance, and take ownership of projects from conception to production. Collaborate closely with engineering teams and define project direction based on business priorities while troubleshooting distributed systems.
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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.

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 (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

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 typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment 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.  

Top Skills

Java
Ruby
Scala

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