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About the team
You will join the MX Engineering team that is responsible for MX-platforms, SDWAN, security, routing, and cellular technology products. Our products are used in over a million network nodes and our customers rely on our products to serve tens of millions of people. With the large footprint that we have, quality is our highest priority. Meraki MX team is responsible for delivering simple to use but very powerful, scalable, and groundbreaking cloud-managed appliances to customers.
The opportunity
As a Principal Engineer on the MX team, you will be in charge of designing, developing, and implementing the architecture of various MX technologies such as SD-WAN, cellular, security, containers, routing, etc. The team will look up to you as a primary architect. This role needs a very experienced, hands-on, and hardworking engineer who can improve the current architecture, plan for next-generation architecture, and partner with Product Management and MX leads to define the next generation technical roadmap on merchant as well as custom silicon.
Immediate opportunity in this role is in the VPP hardware integration area. We are seeking an experienced architect, who has expertise in building embedded routing products from the ground up. We need a data plane architect, who can quickly understand current data plane implementation and work towards building a next-generation data plane. Performance, scalability, and easy interaction of CP and data plane for feature velocity.
Apart from data plane architecture, this role will also serve as the main architect in new product development, new technologies implementation for overall MX
As a Principal Engineer, you will
- Be at the forefront of architecture, design, and implementation of MX new generation of high-performance appliances and platforms
- Develop packet processing and routing capabilities across MX
- Participate and lead various architectural discussions
- Define the next generation product
- Guide the team of hardworking individual contributors to craft the architecture
Minimum Qualifications
- 12+ years of working experience on data plane forwarding and control-plane configuration, signaling for embedded routing, and SD-WAN products.
- Deep knowledge of routing protocols and SD-WAN
- Hands-on experience and crafting on more than one data plane technology across arm and x86. DPDK, NETMAP, VPP, CLICK
- Understanding and experience of L4 to L7 services (like load balancing flows, firewall, IPSec VPN, NAT, IPv6, remote access and various tunneling protocols), architectures, and algorithms
- Experience writing Linux user and kernel code for high-performance fabrics, I/O devices
- Successful delivery on multiple high-performance products
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team
- Good communication skills and experience working with cross-functional teams
Bonus points for
- Good understanding of VPP or CLICK data plane
- Merchant silicon SDKs from Broadcom, Marvell, EZchip, etc.
- Layer 2 / Layer 3 functionality, application-aware packet processing
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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
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