Software Engineering Manager, Distributed Systems

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.

In this role you will support a 6-8 person team of software and data engineers that are constantly innovating ways to ingest and process large sets of data at scale.

Example projects as a Software Development Manager:

• Holding regular one-on-ones with your team, ongoing coaching and mentorship, writing performance evaluations, and compensation planning.
• Planning and tracking timelines for your team, ensuring efficient execution and communicating to relevant partners when things change.
• Working with our recruiters on targeted hiring efforts to make sure your team can meet the needs of the business.
• Working with senior engineers on your team to figure out the best way to build systems for analyze data in new ways. Growing those systems to enable large customers to take advantage of Meraki features at an enormous scale, locally and globally.
• Working alongside Product Management and Design to craft a feature development strategy that makes Dashboard the most intelligent network management system in the industry, while maintaining our core simplicity.

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. You have led teams of more than three people and are looking for an opportunity to explore a new domain while nurturing the continued growth of a team.
• Have 5+ years of experience building systems that maintain a balance between time to market, usability, and incurring appropriate technical debt.
• Have experience writing code for large-scale production environments.
• Are adaptable and versatile, but also understand the business necessity of schedules, estimates, and deadlines.

• Experience with at least one of the following languages: Scala, C/C++, Go, Java, and modern data processing frameworks like Kafka or Spark, and Infrastructure frameworks like Docker, K8S, ELK, etc.

Bonus points for experience with any of the following:

• Mentoring individuals at different stages of their career
• Networking technologies
• Working closely with Product Management, UX, or Design teams
• Data analytics systems

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 managers come from a diverse set of backgrounds.

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.

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