Principal Engineer, Cisco Meraki

• You have 12+ years of related experience and are recognized as a strategic problem solver in internal and external forums, with extensive technical, market, and business expertise
• Experience with modern application development methodologies (CI/CD, Agile/DevOps)
• Familiarity across the stack, with a particular interest and deep expertise in the intersection of fullstack development and security
• Experience with OAuth, SAML, and cloud security primitives like SSL and token exchange
• Ability to get consensus and set technical direction within a large engineering organization
• Expert in building from scratch and/or evolving large web applications
• Adaptability combined with the experience to identify and evaluate opportunities for improvement
• Passionate about solving real customer problems and have experience prototyping, shipping, and iterating on new products
• A strong sense of usability and attention to the users of a system (whether developers using a framework or customers using the product)
• A focused, organized approach to development, testing, and quality
• We work with a mix of languages and technologies at Meraki including Ruby (and Rails), JavaScript/TypeScript, Scala, Go, and other languages. We know that everyone's tech stack is different and that skills translate. If you’ve used comparable technologies and like learning new things there's a good chance you’re an ideal fit for the team

Desirable

• Lead by example and are a hands-on architect and technical expert building systems alongside and with teams enhancing and adopting new authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Chip in significant amounts of production code and provide guidance to more junior engineers for code reviews
• Design, build consensus, and contribute to the implementation of critical authentication and authorization systems across cloud engineering teams
• Work with PM, engineering, UX and other partners to set product vision and define roadmaps and goals spanning multiple organizations or teams
• Help nurture a culture focused on the best possible customer experience
• Work with security and compliance teams to find practical ways to reduce risk and achieve compliance goals
• Partner with senior engineers and leadership to guide best practices
• Work in distributed architectures and with data structures and algorithms
• Build and deploy critical, 24x7 solutions in a SaaS environment
• Lead and/or participate in office hours, give talks, and generate documentation and training to grow engineers' skills
• Architect and validate solutions to address security challenges
• Problem solve, debug, and fix elusive bugs with advanced development skills