Senior Software Engineer

Cisco
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Meet the Team

At Cisco Meraki, our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. To provide best-in-class technologies to our customers, we've created an unrivaled 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 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.

Your Impact

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will collaborate with firmware and other Backend, SRE, Dashboard engineers to architect, design, and build a large-scale system. You will enable connections between over a million network devices and our products. With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority. 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.

  • Design & develop scalable software systems and enhancing backend features.
  • Collaborate with engineers from Backend, SRE, Dashboard, and Support teams to ensure seamless integration, maintain system reliability, enhance user interfaces, and provide comprehensive support for end-users.
  • Identify and address performance issues.
  • Follow established coding standards and contribute insights to improve team knowledge.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience writing production code and tests for medium to large-scale systems.
  • 7+ years of experience in full stack technologies, such as Ruby on Rails/Python/ react.js, JavaScript.
  • Ability to design efficient databases and optimize query performance in a relational database like Postgres.
  • Demonstrates ownership of tasks within the development process, from conception to implementation, by collaborating effectively with peers and cross-functional teams.
  • A keen interest in understanding user needs and contributing to product development.
  • Strong communication skills to articulate ideas clearly and work effectively within a team.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building cloud-based infrastructure and services (e.g. Web applications)
  • Experience or interest in Security or Networking
  • Experience with Container solutions (Kubernetes)

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.

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