Backend/FullStack Senior Engineer (MX) – Ruby on Rails

At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We’re making IT and security easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works. Meraki’s firmware containers team is a growing, quality-focused team reimagining the architecture that governs the code running on millions of physical devices in customer networks.

As a (Backend / Full Stack Rails) Engineer on MX Services 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 Services (Backend / Full Stack) 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 work on:

• Solve complicated 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 and dashboard systems to handle MX SDWAN and security solutions.
• Identify and solve performance bottlenecks in our (Backend / Full Stack) architecture.
• Take complete ownership from conception to production release by using 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:

• 7+ years of proven experience writing professional production code and tests for large-scale systems
• 7+ years of experience in Backend and full-stack technologies (Ruby on Rails, Scala, Go).
• 5+ years of experience in building rich web UIs with React (and Redux).
• 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

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

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