Senior Backend Engineer, Meraki Switch

Senior Backend Engineer , Remote available within US

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.

Meraki Software Engineers breathe life into our cloud-managed network-attached devices, which include switches, routers, wireless access, and security cameras. The Meraki Switching (MS) platform acts as a glue to bring all the Meraki devices together. We are passionate about solving customer problems using real-time telemetry data from millions of nodes deployed across the world. We strive to simplify complex technology using innovative solutions.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for improving our code base, bringing innovative solutions and improving our monitoring and visibility. Initially, this role will focus on delivering fixes for regressions, improving debuggability, and eliminating technical debt and code smells. All of which are key to accelerating the release of bringing up new products to customers. As you mature in your knowledge of our codebase, you will be responsible for improving and re-architecting existing components and subsystems, as well as bringing up new products and features to support the growth of MS, both in terms of functionality, simplicity, scalability, and availability. You will be part of the team which develops visibility features that provide device, network and traffic insights for our end customers. Our projects are driven by technological innovation and developer creativity in addition to market demands, giving you the structure and freedom to pursue projects you are most passionate about. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work across teams to craft systems that enable us to tackle complex problems for our customers. With millions of people using Meraki products around the world, your work will have a significant impact from the day it is deployed. This team develops

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest all the data that runs our dashboard.
• Build systems that process raw data and create intuitive and interesting insights for our customers.
• Design systems to ensure fast, reliable, and scalable delivery of data across our cloud.
• Work with various groups within Cisco Meraki to understand their and our customers' data requirements and requests.
• Design, build, and deploy services in Meraki's Cloud and AWS
• Enhance observability using key metrics, logging, monitoring, and alerting (Statsd, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, PagerDuty)
• Debug and improve performance issues at the database or web application layer as they arise
• Mentor junior engineers in best practices and standards

• Experience and passion for analyzing, scaling, and debugging large systems.
• Excitement for working with large data sets in real-time.
• Basic understanding of SQL, including experience working with one or more relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL or MySQL).
• 7+ years of experience in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages (e.g. Scala, Ruby, Go).
• You take a focused, organized approach to development, testing, and quality.
• You're passionate about what you're doing and ignite people around you.

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don't have all the points above. That's a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great engineers come from diverse backgrounds.

• Experience working with a real-time compute and streaming infrastructure (Kafka, Flink, Storm, Spark, etc).
• Experience with microservice architectures
• Experience or willingness to work in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Personal projects or contributions to open-source projects.

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

• A supportive and fun 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 — Women of Meraki on Twitter and Instagram.
• Actionable and candid feedback on a regular basis following Radical Candor.
• Delicious catered meals every day and fully-stocked kitchens and all you can eat snacks.
• Paid time off to volunteer, and much more.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S.: 
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. 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. 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.