Senior Software Engineer - Firmware, Cameras

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 IT and security easier and faster with technology that simply works. Meraki's camera team is a growing, fast-moving team building security cameras with a unique edge-storage architecture, redefining an industry where innovation is rare. The MV security cameras blend the elegance and ease of use of high-end consumer systems with the immense scalability, security, privacy, and power of enterprise-grade solutions.

You'll get the chance to work with a group of very skilled, humble, and collaborative engineers, with deep experience from start-ups to established companies. The MV Video Systems team is focused on delivering quality and performance in the core aspects of the camera product: Video!

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will help take our camera’s video platform to the next level. You’ll work on things like:

• Generating scrubbing thumbnails on-camera to enable easier seeking through video
• Reporting metrics on video quality to help tune our encoding
• Detect ‘bad’ video: when a camera is out of focus, or the lens is blocked
• On-camera services that help back up video to the cloud
• Ensuring video streaming is extremely reliable, and low latency

• Work closely with the Frontend, Backend, and Mobile teams, along with PM and UX to build consensus and define requirements and API schemas
• Design and code super-resilient on-camera services that process video
• Enhance observability using logging, monitoring, and alerting (Statsd, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, PagerDuty)
• Create unit, functional, and integration tests for services to ensure quality and correctness
• Debug and improve performance issues in the video pipeline

• Have 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Have production experience with C/C++
• Have a strong knowledge of unit testing firmware code
• Experience developing on IoT devices
• Would be excited to join a people-focused team, and look forward to contributing time to help your teammates
• Take a focused, organized approach to development, testing, and quality
• Understand that privacy is inherently valuable for everyone, and work to make sure our system is transparent in its operation and secure with its data
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Video experience not required, but preferred