Meet the Team
At Cisco Meraki, our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences on a scale. To provide best-in-class technologies to our customers, we've created an unrivaled 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 monitor, 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 Impact
- Design, develop, validate, and automate scalable features that simplify network management for customers.
- Translate complex functionality into intuitive and efficient customer experiences.
- Collaborate with Product Management, TMEs, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions.
- Deliver features on time with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and customer value.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree with 4+ years of software development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails, Python, Golang, or Java with Spring Boot, building scalable cloud applications, backend services, and REST APIs.
- Strong React.js UI development experience, building modern, responsive, and scalable web applications.
- Experience with containerization, DevOps practices, Kubernetes, and cloud deployments.
- Experience in system design, code quality, and mentoring/guiding engineers on engineering best practices.
- Exposure to LLMs and AI-assisted development, with a proven ability to deliver high-quality, customer-focused software.
Preferred:
- Exposure to or understanding of networking concepts and technologies.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree
- 4+ years of software development experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails, Python, Golang, or Java with Spring Boot
- Experience building scalable cloud applications, backend services, and REST APIs
- Strong React.js UI development experience
- Experience building modern, responsive, and scalable web applications
- Experience with containerization, DevOps practices, Kubernetes, and cloud deployments
- Experience in system design and code quality
- Experience mentoring or guiding engineers on engineering best practices
- Exposure to LLMs and AI-assisted development
- Ability to deliver high-quality, customer-focused software
- Understanding of networking concepts and technologies
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.
Cisco Insights
What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
