Meraki is making IT easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works. Our full stack teams build and maintain features, frameworks, and tools to craft an excellent user experience in Meraki’s Dashboard. We operate across Meraki’s entire product line, from firewalls, switches, and wireless routers to security cameras and application analytics. Dashboard drastically simplifies the process of deploying and configuring distributed networks, enabling customers to debug networking issues in real time from anywhere. Its rich data visualizations help users detect trends in network traffic and foot traffic alike. Meraki Engineers put the customer experience first, own projects from beginning to end, and are problem solvers.
The SRE Scalability team is responsible for owning the overall ability of the Meraki Dashboard to meet scaling and availability demands. Meraki's high growth rate means our processes and tooling must be automatic and efficient; never driven manually. The projects we work always have an impact and move us towards an infrastructure that meets demands and allows for flexibility and speed.
As a manager at Meraki, you will guide architectural leadership, teach good code review and design practices, and focus relentlessly on quality and automation. You will link your team's goals to the wider organization by telling stories that empower and inspire. You will be a strong mentor, nurturing a collaborative environment where your team can do their best work. You will have opinions about the direction of engineering at Meraki, and will directly contribute to the rapid evolution of our platform!
RESPONSIBILITIES AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER:
- Lead the team and hold regular one-on-ones; ongoing coaching and mentorship, writing performance evaluations, and compensation planning. Grow staff into tech leads or managers, according to their chosen track.
- Helping your team navigate between in-house solutions and open source products; striking a balance between self-learning, formal training, conferences, and commercial support.
- Be an advocate for security standards and quality in the tools and processes that your team develops.
- Build a respectful, inclusive, and successful team culture.
- Be a champion for SRE practices within your own team and across the wider engineering organization. Create tight links with other teams that consume your services, and agree metrics to measure performance. Work with other engineering managers to grow our culture of automation and reliability.
- Develop and own a roadmap to improve automation, grow the team, build out a hybrid cloud, and migrate bare-metal workloads into virtualized or containerized infrastructure.
YOU ARE AN IDEAL CANDIDATE IF YOU:
- Are interested in a leadership role because it allows you to work closely with others to help them achieve their best.
- Have a software engineering background with experience building, testing, and deploying a very large Ruby/Rails application (background in containerization a big plus) and understand how large scale applications are architected well.
- Worked with large infrastructure deployments in Cloud Environments using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Fabric.
- Have driven and guided teams to significant improvements and evolution in developer efficiency through automation and tooling.
- Have formal project management qualifications, or experience leading large, multi-team projects.
- Believe that development and operations are best carried out in close co-operation; all our teams are developers, and own what they create.
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