At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We’re making networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works. We maintain a positive relationship with Cisco that gives us the stability and resources of a larger company without sacrificing our startup vibe.

Our devices are some of the most popular in the world: there are over 6.8 million devices online globally. This popularity comes with large scalability challenges: our backend handles more than 10 billion of requests to our devices 24/7/365.

About the role

In near real time, Cisco Meraki collects massive amounts of data from its devices all over the world. We write nearly 6 million data points each second globally every day. As a Lead Data Engineer, you will design, implement, and help maintain the ETL pipeline that powers our systems. You will work closely with other teams both within engineering and outside of engineering to create systems that satisfy their growing data needs. You will also help scale our systems to handle ever increasing amounts of data points and requests.

What you will do:

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest all the data that runs our dashboard.
• Design systems to ensure fast, reliable, and scalable delivery of data across our cloud.
• Build systems that process raw data and create intuitive and interesting insights for our customers.
• Work with various groups within Cisco Meraki to understand their and our customers’ data requirements and requests.
• Advocate for taking a cloud native approach by building applications as micro-services and running them as containerized units on a dynamically orchestrated platform.
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing engineering best practices.

About you

• Experience designing, implementing, and debugging data pipelines in a distributed system, preferably working with large data sets.
• Experience working with and building a real-time compute and streaming infrastructure (Kafka, Flink, Storm, Spark, etc).
• Strong understanding of microservice architectures, principles and patterns.
• Strong understanding of SQL, including experience working with one or more relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL or MySQL).
• Expertise in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages (e.g. Scala, C++, Go).
• Drive a unit, integration, system test strategy that will help the team deliver value with a high degree of quality.
• You're passionate about what you're doing and ignite people around you.

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points above. That's a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great engineers come from diverse backgrounds.

Bonus points for:

• Experience or a desire to lead technical decisions and design discussions.
• Experience or willing to work in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Personal projects or contributions to open-source projects.

Life at Cisco Meraki

We are passionate about building real products that our customers love. We are confident you will love it here.

As a Cisco Meraki employee you can expect:

• A supportive and fun environment and a team that values your contributions. The Backend Group is called the Exploding Whales. Interested to learn why? Just message us.
• A lot of opportunities for professional and personal growth via employee-led groups. Check out one of our groups — Women of Meraki on Twitter and Instagram.
• Actionable and candid feedback on a regular basis following Radical Candor.
• Delicious catered meals every day and fully-stocked kitchens and all you can eat snacks.
• Paid time off to volunteer, and much more.

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. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.