Lead Backend Engineer (MX Dashboard) - Ruby on Rails, 9+years of Experience

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Hardware • Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Conversational AI
Cisco Meraki simplifies powerful technology so that passionate people can focus on their mission.
The Role
As a Lead Backend Engineer at Meraki, you will build and maintain scalable web applications that manage network devices. You'll solve architectural challenges, collaborate across teams, implement backend systems, and mentor team members, ensuring a powerful cloud-managed service for customers.
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About Meraki:

As the leader in cloud-managed IT, Cisco Meraki connects passionate people to their mission by simplifying the digital workplace. Our impact is driven by the innovative, purposeful, and vibrant people who make up our inclusive community. When technology is intuitive, our customers can focus on what matters.

Our employees fuel the magic of the Meraki community. They have fostered an environment that empowers Merakians to challenge limits, embrace risks, and assist our customers in pursuing their missions.

Our guiding principles are rooted in our four core values: 'care deeply,' 'everybody in,' 'simplify everything,' and 'be brave.' These pillars have propelled us to the forefront of cloud-managed IT leadership and have played a pivotal role in shaping a more inclusive future for all.

About the Role:

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 Backend 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 SDWAN & Security features. You will enable connections between over a million network nodes and our SDWAN & Security customers relying on our products to serve tens of millions of people. 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 challenging architecture problems to build scalable and extendable systems.

 Work with firmware engineers and PM to build intuitive and powerful workflows to handle containers.

 Coordinate and align knowledge and opinions between firmware, SRE, and Dashboard developers.

 With the help of other engineers, implement sophisticated Backend & Dashboard systems to handle MX SDWAN & Security solutions.

 Identify and solve performance bottlenecks in our Backend architecture.

 Take complete ownership from conception to production release by leveraging 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 have:

 9+ years of experience writing professional production code and tests for large scale systems

 7+ years of experience in Backend & Full Stack technologies (Ruby on Rails, Scala, Go)

 Can implement efficient database design and query performance in a relational database (Postgres, SQL)

 Experience with Container solutions (Kubernetes)

 Strategic and product-oriented approach with a desire to understand users

 Outstanding communication skills

Bonus points for any of the following:

 Experience or interest in Security or Networking

 Experience in building rich web UIs with React (and Redux)

 Familiarity working with Observability tools like ELK, Grafana etc is a plus

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

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.

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, 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.     

  

Top Skills

Go
Ruby
Scala
The Company
HQ: San Francisco , CA
3,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Meraki is a Greek word meaning “something done with soul, creativity, or love.” With this name as our mantra, we’re building a welcoming workplace that attracts eclectic, curious, purposeful people who unite to ignite our customers’ passions. Together, we create powerful, simple technology with the potential to change everything.

Why Work With Us

We believe that when passionate people are able to spend less time struggling with technology, they can spend more time on what matters—like teaching kids, running businesses, keeping airports safe, and connecting disaster victims with relief. That’s the real power of simplicity.

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