Senior Backend Engineer (Data Infrastructure)

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 Cisco that gives us the stability and resources of a larger company without sacrificing our startup vibe.

Our devices are some of the most popular in the world: there are over 10 million devices online globally. This popularity comes with large scalability challenges: our backend handles more than 110 billion of requests to our devices 24/7/365.

In near real time, Cisco Meraki collects massive amounts of data from its devices all over the world. We write nearly 11 million data points each second globally every day. With this data, we help to power Dashboard and allow our customers insight into the state of their networks. As a member of the Data Infrastructure team, you will develop, scale, and maintain various data stores and their supporting infrastructure, such as our time-series database, and our internal API endpoints. You will also help scale our systems to handle ever increasing amounts of data points and requests!

• Design, build, and maintain scalable solutions that support our dashboard.
• Languages/technologies include Scala, C++, Ruby, Python, … in a distributed application environment.
• Our efforts include synchronization, scalability, while increasing testability, maintainability, and monitoring.

• Experience and passion for analyzing, scaling, and debugging large systems.
• Experience creating and implementing best practices in distributed enterprise codebases. (e.g. Scala, C++, Python)
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and other build and deployment tools.
• Basic understanding of SQL, including experience working with one or more relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL or MySQL).
• You take a focused, organized approach to development, testing, and quality.
• You're passionate about what you're doing and enjoy working collaboratively within a team

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 willing to work in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Experience with Ruby, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, ElasticSearch, and Kibana.

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. The Backend Group is called the Exploding Whales. Interested to learn why? Just message us.
• 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.

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.

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.

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