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Lead Backend Engineer

Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited

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Bangalore / Bengaluru

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Lead Backend Engineer

Cisco

posted 2d ago

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Job Description

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.

As a Backend Engineer on MX Dashboard team, you will collaborate with firmware and other Backend/SRE/Dashboard engineers to architect, design, and build a large-scale system running MX SDWAN Security features. You will enable connections between over a million network nodes and our SDWAN Security customers relying on our products to serve tens of millions of people. With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority. MX Dashboard team is responsible for delivering a simple to use but very powerful, scalable, and groundbreaking cloud-managed service to customers. 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.

What you will work on:

Solve challenging architecture problems to build scalable and extendable systems.

Work with firmware engineers and PM to build intuitive and powerful workflows to handle containers.

Coordinate and align knowledge and opinions between firmware, SRE, and Dashboard developers.

With the help of other engineers, implement sophisticated Backend Dashboard systems to handle MX SDWAN Security solutions.

Identify and solve performance bottlenecks in our Backend architecture.

Take complete ownership from conception to production release by leveraging your ability to influence, facilitate, and work collaboratively across teams.

Lead, mentor, and spread best practices to other specialists on the team.

You are an ideal fit if you:

9+ years of experience writing professional production code and tests for large scale systems

7+ years of experience in Backend Full Stack technologies Ruby on Rails / Scala / Go / Java / NodeJS / JavaScript.

Can implement efficient database design and query performance in a relational database (Postgres, SQL)

Experience with Container solutions (Kubernetes)

Strategic and product-oriented approach with a desire to understand users

Outstanding communication skills

Bonus points for any of the following:

Experience or interest in Security or Networking

Experience in building rich web UIs with React (and Redux)

Familiarity working with Observability tools like ELK, Grafana etc is a plus

Does this sound like youWed love to hear from you!

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.

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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