Meet the Team
At Cisco Meraki, our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at 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 Dashboard teams build and maintain our Web applications, which manage 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 day.
Your Impact
As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will collaborate with firmware and other Backend, SRE, Dashboard engineers to architect, design, and build a large-scale system. You will enable connections between over a million network devices and our products. With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority. With help from product managers and firmware engineers, you will construct intuitive but powerful systems that will be used by customers via the Meraki Dashboard.
- Design & develop scalable software systems and enhancing backend features.
- Collaborate with engineers from Backend, SRE, Dashboard, and Support teams to ensure seamless integration, maintain system reliability, enhance user interfaces, and provide comprehensive support for end-users.
- Identify and address performance issues.
- Follow established coding standards and contribute insights to improve team knowledge.
Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience writing production code and tests for medium to large-scale systems.
- 7+ years of experience in full stack technologies, such as Ruby on Rails/Python/ react.js, JavaScript.
- Ability to design efficient databases and optimize query performance in a relational database like Postgres or SQL.
- Demonstrates ownership of tasks within the development process, from conception to implementation, by collaborating effectively with peers and cross-functional teams.
- A keen interest in understanding user needs and contributing to product development.
- Strong communication skills to articulate ideas clearly and work effectively within a team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building cloud-based infrastructure and services (e.g. Web applications)
- Experience or interest in Security or Networking
- Experience with Container solutions (Kubernetes)
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
- 7+ years of experience writing production code and tests for medium- to large-scale systems
- 7+ years of experience with full-stack technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Python, React.js, and JavaScript
- Ability to design efficient databases and optimize query performance in PostgreSQL or SQL relational databases
- Ownership of development tasks from conception through implementation
- Ability to collaborate effectively with peers and cross-functional teams
- Interest in understanding user needs and contributing to product development
- Strong communication skills
- Experience building cloud-based infrastructure and services
- Experience or interest in security or networking
- Experience with container solutions such as Kubernetes
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 broad, with medical options including PPOs, high-deductible plans, and regional HMOs. Feedback suggests robust wellness and mental-health resources, with some locations offering on-site support and second medical opinions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is highlighted through paid holidays, paid time off, and additional recharge days such as “Days for Me,” with generous volunteer time also mentioned. Feedback suggests these programs help support rest, volunteering, and critical life events.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support appears extensive, including paid child-bonding leave, family medical leave, and caregiving resources. Observations also point to family-planning assistance and adoption or surrogacy support in some regions.
Cisco Insights
What We Do
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