Cisco Meraki · 2 days ago

Technical Leader, Backend Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$126K/yr - $242K/yr

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable delightful user experiences and measurable business growth

Work very closely with Cisco device platform engineering teams to design, develop, optimize highly performant and reliable enterprise class solutions

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 collaboratively across teams.

Partner with EM/PM and other collaborators so define teams direction based on engineering and business priorities

Qualification

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JavaScalaRuby on RailsPostgresWeb applicationsCustomer-centric designNetworkingCloud-based infrastructureLeadership

Required

7+ years of experience working on large scale systems for cloud-connected hardware devices preferably networking devices.

3+ years of experience of professional coding web backend technologies, like Ruby on Rails or similar and proficiency in Scala/Ruby/Java and rolling services out safely to customers using feature flags, A/B tests etc.

Hands-on experience making architectural and system design choices. Ability to communicate the trade offs and coach other team members.

Demonstrate 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.

Experienced with troubleshooting and debugging distributed systems using data driven approach.

Thrive in a fast paced agile engineering team and are excited to tackle open-ended problems across the stack by rolling your sleeves up and working in all layers of the stack!