Software Engineer - 7+yrs - Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Python, Web Development/Architecture

Location: Bangalore, India

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

At Cisco, 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.

As a Full Stack Software 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 SD-WAN & Security features. You will enable connections between over a million network devices and our SD-WAN & Security customers relying on our products. 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 MX Dashboard.

What you will do:

• Solve challenging scaling problems to meet a growing user base and ensure the best experience and uptime.

• Identify and solve performance bottlenecks in our Web application.

• Collaborate with firmware engineers, UX designers, and product managers to design, iterate, and implement new Security and SD-WAN features within the Meraki Dashboard for our customers.

• Contribute significantly to production code and provide guidance to junior engineers through code reviews.

• Utilize advanced development skills for problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting.

• Responsible for scoping, design and building some of the high impact technology projects.

• Accountable for the stability of our product with a high customer focus.

• Be a unifying force connecting people and motivating others to do their best.

You are an ideal candidate if you:

• 7+ years of experience writing professional production code and tests

• 5+ years of experience in Web backend technologies, like Ruby on Rails, Python, Node.js, etc.

• Skilled in building large-scale web applications and distributed services either from scratch or by evolving existing systems

• Experience working on large scale systems

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

• Have experience prototyping, shipping, and iterating on new and sophisticated features and experiences

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

• Exhibit passion for your work and have the ability to inspire and motivate those around you

Bonus points for:

• Experience in analyzing and scaling large systems, Web development, or dev-ops/infrastructure tasks

• Experience or interest in Security or Networking

• Experience with real time Dashboards

Are you interested in contributing to one of the largest Ruby on Rails applications in the world? Can you solve challenging technical problems with high performing, maintainable solutions? Are you interested in helping other team members advance their skills and knowledge?

Does this sound like you? We’d love to hear from you!

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.