Posted 20 days ago
Software Engineering Technical Lead - Backend | 12+ Yrs | Bangalore
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Technical Lead for the Mars team at Cisco Meraki, responsible for building scalable distributed backend solutions for the Meraki Dashboard and Catalyst family, including system design, reliability, performance, and cross-team collaboration.
About this role
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, we've composed an outstanding company culture for our employees. One that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive and provides employees with the autonomy to develop technology that's 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.
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Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Disclaimer
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