Technical Lead- Full Stack Engineer

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 Full Stack Technical Lead on Dashboard team, you will collaborate with Product Managers and other Backend/SRE/Dashboard/ engineers to architect, design, and build a large-scale system delivering powerful, scalable, and groundbreaking cloud-managed service to customers.. With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority. 

What you will work on:

• Solve complicated architecture problems to build scalable and extendable systems.

• Coordinate and align knowledge and opinions between Product, SRE, and Dashboard developers.

• With the collaboration with other engineers, implement sophisticated Dashboard systems and infra to handle unique Meraki Dashboard problems.

• Identify and solve performance bottlenecks in our architecture.

• Take complete ownership from conception to production release by maximizing your ability to influence, facilitate, and work collaboratively across teams.

• Lead, mentor, and spread standard methodologies to other specialists on the team.

You are an ideal fit if you:

• 10+ years of proven experience writing professional production code and tests for large-scale systems

• 7+ years of experience in Backend and full-stack technologies (Ruby on Rails/Python/)

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

• Demonstrate a sense of ownership throughout the entire development process, from conception to production release, by effectively influencing and collaborating with cross-functional teams

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

• Outstanding communication skills

Bonus points for any of the following:

• Experience building cloud-based infrastructure and services (e.g. Web applications)

• Experience or interest in Security or Networking

• Experience with Container solutions (Kubernetes)