At Meraki, we’re making IT easier, faster, and smarter. Our full-stack teams build and maintain our web applications, which manages 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.

The Dashboard API Team focuses on the programmatic interface to the Meraki Dashboard. We define and refine how we, and other teams at Meraki, develop our APIs. Meraki APIs make it possible for our customers to rapidly deploy and manage networks at scale, build on a platform of intelligent, cloud-connected IT products, and engage with users in powerful new ways.

What you will do:

• Develop tools, frameworks, and APIs for customers to configure and monitor networking devices all over the world.
• Build intuitive and powerful workflows to solve important problems for IT professionals around the world, by collaborating with product managers and UX designers.
• Solve challenging scaling problems to ensure a seamless user experience and high uptime.
• Identify and solve performance bottlenecks in our web application.
• Be a technical leader by helping other engineers make architectural design decisions while evangelizing engineering best practices.
• Be a unifying force connecting people and motivating others to do their best.
• Contribute to a kind, inclusive team that’s enthusiastic about simplifying networking products for our customers by scaling distributed systems.

You are an ideal candidate if you:

• Have 8+ years of experience writing professional production code and tests.
• Have 5+ years of experience in web backend technologies, like Ruby on Rails or Go.
• Take complete ownership from conception to production release by leveraging your ability to influence, facilitate, and work collaboratively across teams.
• Would thrive in a small engineering team and are excited to solve open-ended problems across the stack.
• Are a strong hands on technical leader with a desire to grow into a people leader
• leading individual contributor and want to grow into a tech lead role.
• Are passionate about what you do and ignite people around you.

Bonus points for:

• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, and Postgres.
• Experience or willing to work in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Have working knowledge of network protocols used on both local and wide-area networks.

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.

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.