Principal Backend Engineer, Cisco Meraki

• You are an inspiring innovator, mentor, and coach, conversant and passionate about emerging opportunities, a thorough strategist who is equally comfortable and capable interacting with technologists as with senior business executives with the ability to articulate the value of the proposed solution
• 15+ years of related experience and are recognized as a strategic problem solver in internal and external forums, with extensive technical, market and business expertise
• A proven ability leading process and culture changes that inspire and grow multi-disciplinary engineering teams
• Experience with modern application development methodologies (CI/CD, Agile/DevOps)
• An interest in getting consensus and setting technical direction across a large engineering organization
• Experience in building from scratch and/or evolving large web applications
• Experience developing and optimizing large-scale backend applications demonstrating your public cloud knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Deeply skilled in full stack web technologies and languages (e.g. JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby/Rails, Scala)
• Linux Administrator, versatile in console commands, scripting, utilities (PERL, Python, BASH)
• Experience building systems that are performant at enterprise scale
• Familiarity with distributed systems development, container & container orchestration technologies
• Experience working and helping build test automation systems, deployment pipelines

Desirable

• As a Principal Engineer of Camera Software, you will lead large architectural and implementation initiatives with peers in engineering to create ground-breaking features, scale our infrastructure, and empower our greater camera engineering team with a well-thought-out platform approach
• You will be part of a small team of hardworking Senior Engineering talent reporting to the Senior Director of the IoT team
• Your technical leadership will span or at least influence everything from full stack cloud software, embedded software, QA, video processing, database design and computer vision applications
• You lead by example and demonstrate excellence in collaboration and communication across engineering teams, utilizing creative problem solving and a consistent track record for leading and directly contributing to the launches of new platforms and/or transformational architecture change
• Your focus will be on ensuring the rest of the team has the direction and tools they need to deliver high-quality innovative products on time
• You will directly and indirectly be assisting other engineers with their career development through example and active coaching
• You will seek to align collaborators to our most significant objectives, offering a technical vision for both the team and product that keeps everyone motivated, growing, and attracting the best talent looking forward
• Lead by example and are a hands-on architect building system alongside a team
• Working with collaborators to set product vision, define, and deliver on technical roadmaps spanning multiple organizations or teams
• Drive complex projects and direct a team of engineers to build and deploy critically important, 24x7 solutions in a SaaS environment
• Lead our next generation cloud architecture to achieve horizontally scalable, cloud-managed services that can support our future growth and empower developers to maintain a rapid pace of innovation
• Cultivate a culture of craftsmanship where development and quality engineers work together to deliver a high-quality experience throughout the entire product lifecycle