Senior Software Engineering Technical Leader - 10+yrs - Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Python, Web Development/Architecture

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 Dashboard teams build and maintain our Web applications, which manage millions of network devices from our cloud. Our customers use the Meraki Dashboard to monitor and configure critical IT infrastructure that serves tens of millions of people every day.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer on MX Dashboard team, you will collaborate with firmware and other Backend, SRE, Dashboard engineers to architect, design, and build a large-scale system running MX SD-WAN & Security features. You will enable connections between over a million network devices and our SD-WAN & Security customers relying on our products. With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority. MX Dashboard team is responsible for delivering a simple to use but very powerful, scalable, and groundbreaking cloud-managed service to customers. With help from product managers and firmware engineers, you will construct intuitive but powerful systems that will be used by customers via the Meraki Dashboard.

What You Will Work On

• Solve complicated architecture problems to build scalable and extendable systems.
• Work with firmware engineers and product management to build intuitive and powerful workflows to handle Dashboard operations.
• Coordinate and align knowledge and opinions between Firmware, SRE, and Dashboard developers.
• With the collaboration with other engineers, implement sophisticated Dashboard systems and infrastructure to handle MX SD-WAN and Security solutions.
• Identify and solve performance bottlenecks in our MX Dashboard architecture.
• Take complete ownership from conception to production release by maximizing your ability to influence, facilitate, and work collaboratively across teams.
• Lead, mentor, and spread best practices to other specialists on the team.
  
  

You Are An Ideal Fit If You

• 10+ years of proven experience writing professional production code and tests for large-scale systems
• 9+ years of experience in full stack technologies (Ruby on Rails/Python/NodeJS, Javascript)
• Can implement efficient database design and query performance in a relational database (Postgres, SQL)
• Demonstrate a sense of ownership throughout the entire development process, from conception to production release, by effectively influencing and collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Strategic and product oriented approach with a desire to understand users
• Outstanding communication skills
  
  

Bonus Points For Any Of The Following

• Experience building cloud-based infrastructure and services (e.g. Web applications)
• Experience or interest in Security or Networking
  
  

Are you interested in contributing to one of the largest Ruby on Rails applications in the world? Can you solve challenging technical problems with high performing, maintainable solutions? Are you interested in helping other team members advance their skills and knowledge?

Does this sound like you? We’d love to hear from you!

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.