Senior Database Engineer, Cisco Meraki
$130.9-184.6k
Salary is benchmarked on US rates and may vary on further locations; + Annual Bonus
Cloud-based network platform
Open for applications
Cloud-based network platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$130.9-184.6k
Salary is benchmarked on US rates and may vary on further locations; + Annual Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify technology so passionate people can focus on their mission.
Role
Who you are
- Deep knowledge and experience designing and maintaining PostgreSQL infrastructure On-prem and in cloud
- Experience building and maintaining sophisticated mission-critical production database systems
- Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the storage
- Proven track record of automating tasks
- Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths)
- Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, etc
- Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl)
Desirable
- Experience with NoSQL databases, memory stores e.g. Redis
- Experience migrating database from on-prem to cloud and vice versa
- Experience with Timeseries databases
- Experience with messaging queues
What the job involves
- In near real time, Cisco Meraki collects massive amounts of data from its devices all over the world
- We write nearly 7 million data points each second globally every day
- This data, helps power our Dashboard and gives our customers insight into the state of their networks
- As a member of the Data Infrastructure team, you will coordinate, scale, secure, and maintain our on-prem relational and non-relational database systems
- You will work with all Engineering teams throughout Cisco Meraki guiding them towards best practices to meet the data requirements for their use cases
- Work alongside our SRE teams to plan, administer, maintain and secure our PostgreSQL infrastructure across our backend
- Perform operational DBA duties: installation, database upgrades, patching, implement backup/recovery and monitoring procedures, capacity planning, and site failover/switchover
- Ensure systems are running at the highest possible performance level by analyzing and tuning queries
- Guide engineers on performance tuning and optimization, query optimization, index tuning, caching, buffer tuning, etc
- Review database changes requested by engineering teams for impacts to database designs, design standards, data conversions, naming standards, and documentation
- Learn about the data and it’s use to make recommendations for improvements in how it is stored and processed
- Work with Data Engineering team to design, build and maintain ETL pipelines for PG
- Develop procedures and scripts for data migration
- Automate schema management with tools like Liquibase, ActiveRecords, etc
- Support architectural changes with new database environments in both public and private clouds
Our take
Cisco Meraki, formed from the acquisition of Meraki by Cisco in 2012, is an industry-leading cloud-managed IT company. Its technology provides unified management of mobile devices, Macs, PCs, and entire networks, all from a centralised dashboard.
Originally founded in 2006, Meraki's transformation to Cisco Meraki allowed it to reach more than 2 million active networks, and over 7 million devices globally, on top of gaining the strength of Cisco’s resources. The company has kept pace with the rise of hybrid workforces and multi-cloud environments with its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering, which bridges networking and security so that workers have seamless, secure access wherever they are working from.
Operating in a growing industry, there is plenty of opportunity for Cisco Meraki to expand its operations, and to further develop its offerings. The company supports a range of clients, encompassing roughly 75% of Fortune 500 companies, and including names such as Audi, Applebee's, and Colliers International.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2012
$40m
SERIES D
Feb 2011
$15m
SERIES C
Total funding: $80m
Company values
- Simplify everything - We simplify complex problems to make it easy for people to work with us and to work with each other.
- Care deeply - We care about what matters for our users, our partners and our colleagues. We focus on building meaningful relationships and creating great partnerships.
- Everybody in - We are a team that works as one toward our goals. We listen to each other, share ideas, and invite different opinions. Everybody is accepted and valued here.
- Be brave - We push boundaries and experiment. We learn from our experiences and failures and help each other grow. We have the grit to get the job done and we are never done getting better.
Company HQ
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Brett Hull
(Head of Engineering (Not Founder))Previously Research Associate and Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and Software Development Intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cisco Meraki
Jessica Gilbert (Head of Inclusion and Collaboration)
- We take pride in our supportive, inclusive community and work environment. Every Merakian is welcome to join our employee resource groups - Women of Meraki, Latinx, Mosaic, CAAN, and QFAM to name a few.
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