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 5.7 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, Meraki collects massive amounts of data from its devices all over the world. Our Dashboard, product vision, and BI are all powered by this data. We are seeking a lead data infrastructure engineer that will help us design, build, and maintain an infrastructure that is resilient, responsive, and scales to meet our ever growing data ingestion requirements.

What you will do:

• Build fault tolerant, elastic and highly responsive data infrastructure that powers real-time data processing of billions of records daily.
• Ensuring data consistency across various multi-region data centers by building a custom replication solution for our relational datastore that houses the backbone of Meraki’s configuration data.
• Adding features to LittleTable (our custom time-series database that stores 100 of TB’s of data and is written to millions of times a second) to guarantee GDPR compliance & high performance across our geo-distributed customer base.
• Advocate for taking a cloud native approach by building applications as micro-services and running them as containerized units on a dynamically orchestrated platform.
• Automate and handle life-cycle of the systems that form our data infrastructure.
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing engineering best practices.

About you

• Experience designing, implementing and debugging distributed systems that run across thousands of nodes.
• 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).
• Deep understanding of data structures such as log-structured merge trees.
• Experience working with cloud-native infrastructure on a private (OpenStack) or Hybrid cloud.
• Expertise in object-oriented and/or functional programming languages (e.g. Scala, C++, Ruby, Go).
• Drive a unit, integration, system test strategy that will help the team deliver value with a high degree of quality.
• Experience in API Gateway and Service Mesh for secured, scalable and resilient deployment of microservices.
• 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:

• Personal projects or contributions to open-source projects.
• Experience with containerization related management stacks like Swarm, Kubernetes.
• Experience or willing to work in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).

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.

At Cisco Meraki, we don't just accept difference - it's one of our key values. Everybody In means we listen to each other's opinions. Everybody is accepted and valued here, and we are a team that works as one towards our goals. We recognize that diverse teams make the strongest teams, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

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.