FUTURE OPPORTUNITY: Software Engineering Manager , Full Stack - Remote , U.S. and Canada

As the leader in cloud-managed IT, Cisco Meraki connects passionate people to their mission by simplifying the digital workplace. Our impact is driven by the innovative, purposeful, and vibrant people who make up our inclusive community. When technology is intuitive, our customers can focus on what matters.

We are building a network of future Merakians who are excited by our mission & culture and want to make an impact in their next role. We would like to hear from you if you are interested in being considered for future career opportunities with us.

To be considered for future roles, please submit your resume. When a position is available that matches your background and skill set, we will reach out to you.

Please note this job posting is currently not open and is intended to advertise future job opportunities.

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 lead a 6-8 person team of software engineers of varying skill levels. You will provide architectural leadership, review designs, and prioritize the growth and development of your team members. You will be a strong mentor, cultivating an encouraging environment where your team can do their best work. You will enable a highly productive relationship among product management, design, and engineering.

As a Software Engineering Manager you will:

• Mentor junior engineers and encourage the professional growth of everyone on the team.
• Partner with Product Management and Product Engineering teams.
• Be responsible for growing the team, retaining talent, and providing technical direction and career development opportunities.
• Collaborate with engineers across product teams to architect features that delight our customers.
• Working with senior engineers on your team to determine the direction of Dashboard’s API. Rapidly growing it to enable large customers to take advantage of Meraki features at an enormous scale, locally and globally.
• Leading the team to develop a framework that ensures Dashboard works well in multiple languages. The challenge is maintaining high-quality translations through the use of automation and developer tools so that ongoing developer involvement is minimal.
• Foster a culture of quality, teamwork, and inclusiveness.

You are an ideal candidate if you:

• Have 5+ years of proven ability 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 roadmaps.
• Have experience with one or more front-end frameworks such as React or Angular, and modern web frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Django.

Bonus points for experience with any of the following:

• Mentoring individuals at different stages of their career
• Building and managing Public APIs
• 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 engineers 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.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.