Principal Engineer, FrontEnd
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 networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works.
The modern world runs on the internet, and the internet cannot exist without its underlying infrastructure. Meraki makes setting up, managing, and maintaining that infrastructure easier than it has ever been before. Meraki enables connectivity everywhere from neighborhood cafes to education institutions to global hospitality groups operating thousands of sites.
The Opportunity:
You are an inspiring innovator, mentor, and coach, conversant and passionate about emerging opportunities. You lead by example and demonstrate excellence in collaboration and communication across engineering teams, with an interest in creative problem solving and a consistent track record for leading and directly chipping in to the launches of new platforms and/or transformational architecture changes. You are proficient at writing code and deploying it into a distributed architecture. You are also an effective spokesperson and champion for engineering teams, passionate about mentoring and developing engineers. You are an inspiring leader and a thorough problem solver 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. You value simplicity at scale and are dedicated to maintaining a culture of quality, reliability, security, and focused execution.
As a Principal Engineer You Will
- Lead by example and are a hands-on architect and technical expert building systems alongside and with teams doing frontend work across engineering
- Chip in significant amounts of production code and providing guidance to more junior engineers for code reviews.
- Provide technical leadership for critical platform, library, and system development
- Design, build consensus, and contribute to the implementation of libraries, and frameworks, and processes that enable frontend development across engineering
- Work with PM, engineering, UX and other partners to set product vision and define roadmaps and goals spanning multiple organizations or teams
- Partner with senior engineers and leadership to guide best practices
- Help nurture a culture focused on the best possible customer experience
- 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
We are looking for:
- 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 frontend technologies
- Experience with React and other frontend frameworks
- 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 focus on the users of a system (whether developers using a framework or customers using the product)
- You take 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, and TypeScript. (There's some Scala, Go, and other languages on the backend.) We're using React as our primary framework in JavaScript. 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.Bonus points for experience in:
- Introducing design systems to an existing application
- Evolving and improving frontend testing practices
- Frontend deployment infrastructure (CDNs, versioning, etc.)
Meraki is based in the Mission Bay area of San Francisco, with beautiful views of the Oracle Ballpark and the Bay beyond. You will have access to an onsite gym, multiple kitchens stocked with high quality snacks, a coffee bar, catered lunches every day, and a generous benefits package.
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.
Compensation Range:
$219,700—$323,500 USD
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, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
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