At Cisco Meraki, our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. To provide outstanding technologies to our customers, we've composed an outstanding 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 customers use the Meraki web dashboard and programmable APIs to supervise, configure, and automate critical IT infrastructure that serves tens of millions of people every single day!. The Mars team is responsible for bringing Meraki Dashboard features to the Cisco Catalyst family.
Your ImpactWork across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable delightful user experiences and measurable business growth
Ensure reliability, performance and operational excellence of these systems by adding tests, telemetry and alerting systems
Take complete ownership from conception to production release by demonstrating your ability to influence, facilitate, and work across different teams.
Partner with EM/PM and other collaborators so define teams direction based on engineering and business priorities
Solve software defects, networking issues, and customer-reported problems while improving performance, scalability, and reliability.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field and 12+ years of related experience, or Master’s degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience.
3+ years of experience of professional coding web backend technologies, such as Ruby on Rails or similar as well as Go/Ruby/Python and rolling services out safely to customers using feature flags, A/B tests etc
Demonstrated experience making architectural and system designc hoices. Ability to communicate the trade offs and mentor other team members
Practical experience with Emulation and Simulation of Networking devices
Project Leadership through defining well-scoped stepping stones for a project(s) based on loosely defined business problems and can identify metrics to track project progress.
Ability to thrive in a fast paced agile engineering team and are excited to solve open-ended problems across the stack by rolling your sleeves up and working in all layers of the stack!
Experience with networking devices.
Experience with Cisco CML.
Experience systems software design, or large-scale distributed networking solutions.
Experience working across cross-functional or geographically distributed engineering teams. teams.
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.
Disclaimer
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering (12+ years related experience) or Master's (10+ years) or PhD (5+ years)
- 3+ years of hands-on people-management experience leading and developing engineering teams of ~8-10
- Strong familiarity with backend application development using Ruby on Rails and Python
- Experience with containerized and cloud-native environments using Docker and Kubernetes
- Demonstrated experience with architecture, system design, technical trade-offs, and distributed systems
- Practical experience with emulation and simulation of networking devices
- Experience leading projects from loosely defined business problems through delivery, including milestone and dependency management
- Demonstrated curiosity, accountability, clear communication, and ability to surface risks and align stakeholders
- Experience working with networking devices and technologies
- Experience with Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) or similar network emulation/simulation platforms
- Experience in systems software design or large-scale distributed networking solutions
- Experience working across multi-functional and geographically distributed engineering teams
- Experience with product roadmap planning, resource estimation, Agile practices, and customer/partner engagement
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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What We Do
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