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At Meraki, we’re making IT easier, faster, and smarter. Our full-stack teams build and maintain our web application, which supports 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 single day.
As a Technical Leader on the Foundational Features team at Meraki, you will collaborate with other engineers and leaders to design, plan, and build new features for our customers. You'll work closely with product managers and UX designers to construct intuitive and powerful workflows to solve important problems for IT professionals around the world. Our team's goal is to create robust features that make our customers' lives easier while building scalable systems that other developers can leverage.
Meraki’s Dashboard teams are small, agile teams striving to make our products unique in balancing their feature-rich abilities and their simplicity. You’ll be developing the tools by which our customers configure and monitor network devices all over the world. Our full-stack engineers are well-versed in a wide array of CS concepts and eager to jump around languages, platforms, and all levels of the Meraki stack!
What you will do:
- Lead by example and be a hands-on architect building systems alongside a team.
- Drive complex projects and lead engineers to build and deploy critically important, 24x7 solutions in a SaaS environment.
- Collaborate with engineering and product leaders to set a strategic vision. Define and deliver on technical roadmaps spanning multiple teams and organizations.
- Build products that balance usability, stability, security, and scalability. Foster a team culture of delivering a high-quality product experience.
- Anticipate business and technical problems, and proactively implement creative approaches to respond.
- Drive the end-to-end quality of the system and introduce new ideas to improve code by identifying new patterns to adopt.
- Collaborate with product managers and UX designers to build seamless and intuitive user experiences.
- Mentor other engineers and empower others to excel at their roles.
- Make suggestions to and drive improvement of team and organizational processes.
- Navigate and optimize legacy systems while effectively handling uncertainty.
We welcome candidates with:
- 12+ years of experience in designing, developing, and testing enterprise-class web applications.
- Experience in backend web technologies and languages (e.g. Ruby on Rails, Golang) and database design (we use Postgres)
- Experience in building consensus across teams and setting technical direction across engineering organizations.
- Experience in evolving and scaling large web applications.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to mentor and coach team members.
Bonus points for any of the following:
- Experience building rich web UIs with React and Redux or similar frameworks.
- Passion for solving complex customer problems and building innovative solutions.
- Interest in career advancement.
- Experience or interest in networking.
- Experience building cloud-based infrastructure and services for web-based applications.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.
Compensation Range:
$156,200—$282,900 USD
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
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