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At Cisco Meraki, our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. To provide best-in-class technologies to our customers, weve created an unrivaled company culture for our employees. One that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive and provides employees with the autonomy to develop technology thats intuitive, secure, and accessible for everyone.

The Meraki MX is one the world’s leading Security Routers, with millions of active deployments around the world, and we are looking for highly motivated feature engineers to work on the next generation of high performance network security solutions!

If you enjoy working on features for high performance and distributed systems, and also like the idea of being part of a small but highly capable team, then we would love to hear from you.

As a feature engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing customer-facing features with a special focus on network security. We offer an opportunity to work across our stack, developing software that spans from embedded Linux firmware and routing software, all the way up to our distributed, cloud-hosted backend.

Our projects are driven by technological innovation and developer creativity in addition to market demands, giving you the structure and freedom to pursue projects you are most passionate about. With hundreds of millions of people using Meraki products around the world, your work will have a significant impact from the day it is deployed.

AS AN EMBEDDED SOFTWARE ENGINEER FOCUSED ON MX SECURITY, YOU WILL:

Work on new network security features emphasizing performance and customer ease of use
Collaborate with multiple different teams across the stack to ensure a seamless integration between firmware, backend and frontend
Work with embedded linux development tools like debuggers, performance and memory profilers
Work on realtime diagnostics and issue resolution on remote customer devices

You are an ideal candidate if you have:

Have 5+ years of professional (or comparable) experience writing production code
Strong Problem Solving Skills using C++
Have good understanding of unix based OS and Network fundamentals
Effective Collaborative and Communication skills
An appetite for learning about software and systems, and an interest in breaking things to learn how to make them better.

Bonus points for:

Experience working application profiling and optimization
Working knowledge of core networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ARP, IPv6)
Experience with Go and Rust programming languages
Experience with Linux internals like epoll, control groups and namespaces
Experience in Scripting skills using POSIX, Python, Ruby or similar

Cisco Meraki

Cisco Meraki, a division of Cisco Networking, is a cloud-managed IT company and leader in cloud-controlled Wi-Fi, routing, and security. Our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. To provide best-in-class technologies to our customers, we’ve created an unrivaled company culture for our employees. One where diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences shape our work and fuel our evolution. One that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive and provides employees with the autonomy to develop technology that’s accessible and secure for everyone.

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:

$119,100—$203,100 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 candidates 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.