Software Engineering Technical Leader - Backend Networking 12 Years

Cisco; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Meraki in Bengaluru is seeking a senior backend engineer to build scalable distributed solutions that power customer experiences at scale. You will own features from conception to production and work with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable systems.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of backend web development with Ruby on Rails, Go or Python, plus experience in emulation/simulation of networking devices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE or related field with 12+ years of experience, or Master’s with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years.
• 3+ years of professional backend web development using Ruby on Rails, Go, Python or similar.
• Experience making architectural and system design choices and mentoring teammates.
• Practical experience with emulation and simulation of networking devices.
• Project leadership to define scoped milestones and track progress with metrics.
• Thrives in a fast-paced agile engineering team across the stack.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable distributed backend systems and delight users with reliable performance.
• Improve reliability, performance, telemetry and alerting across services.
• Own features from conception to production release and drive them end-to-end.
• Collaborate with EM/PM and cross-functional teams to align on direction.
• Solve networking and software issues while improving scalability and quality.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Go

Python

Feature flags

A/B tests

Architectural design

Mentoring

Agile development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

Cisco CML

Emulation

Simulation

Job description

Job Description:

Meet the Team

At Cisco Meraki, our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. To provide outstanding technologies to our customers, weve composed an outstanding company culture for our employees. One that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive and provides employees with the autonomy to develop technology thats intuitive, secure, and accessible for everyone.

Our customers use the Meraki web dashboard and programmable APIs to supervise, configure, and automate critical IT infrastructure that serves tens of millions of people every single day!. The Mars team is responsible for bringing Meraki Dashboard features to the Cisco Catalyst family.

Your Impact

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable delightful user experiences and measurable business growth
• Ensure reliability, performance and operational excellence of these systems by adding tests, telemetry and alerting systems
• Take complete ownership from conception to production release by demonstrating your ability to influence, facilitate, and work across different teams.
• Partner with EM/PM and other collaborators so define teams direction based on engineering and business priorities
• Solve software defects, networking issues, and customer-reported problems while improving performance, scalability, and reliability.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field and 12+ years of related experience, or Master’s degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience.
• 3+ years of experience of professional coding web backend technologies, such as Ruby on Rails or similar as well as Go/Ruby/Python and rolling services out safely to customers using feature flags, A/B tests etc
• Demonstrated experience making architectural and system designc hoices. Ability to communicate the trade offs and mentor other team members
• Practical experience with Emulation and Simulation of Networking devices
• Project Leadership through defining well-scoped stepping stones for a project(s) based on loosely defined business problems and can identify metrics to track project progress.
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced agile engineering team and are excited to solve open-ended problems across the stack by rolling your sleeves up and working in all layers of the stack!

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with networking devices.
• Experience with Cisco CML.
• Experience systems software design, or large-scale distributed networking solutions.
• Experience working across cross-functional or geographically distributed engineering teams. teams.