Software Engineering Manager - Network Security and Platform

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 IT and networking easier, faster, and more inquisitive with technology that simply works!

As a Software Engineering Manager of Meraki MX Network Security and Platform team, you will drive all technical aspects of products and features required by MX Security and platform areas, including requirements definition and refinement, design, estimation, implementation, unit and system-level testing, as well as deployment.

You will partner with Product Management to define and accomplish the platform roadmap. You will also be growing the team, retaining talent, providing technical direction and career development opportunities, and nurturing the team's culture of quality, teamwork and inclusiveness. You will also be responsible for effective tracking, and reporting progress to the senior leadership team for areas your team will be working on, as well as working with your team on technical tasks.

You are an ideal candidate if you have:

• 12+ years of technical leadership experience in Cloud based or Embedded Networking Platforms development
• 3 years of experience managing engineers involved in development of products on network security.
• Have good knowledge of networking security concepts like stateful firewalls, traffic inspection, IDS/IPS systems
• Effective communication skills and proven track record of collaboration.
• Experience in working and building cross cultural teams and working with people from different geographies.
• Experience with an Agile methodology (e.g., Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience with modern C and/or C++ (C++11 and later)

Bonus points for:

• Good understanding of SD-WAN, SASE, SSE, ZTNA, NGFW, etc.
• Good understanding of networking areas like IP, NAT, BGP/OSPF, VPN or IPsec.
• Good experience with Yocto, CVE patching, kernel upgrades, on-prem and cloud platforms bring-up.
• Experience in Go or Ruby languages.
• Experience working with version control, specifically Git
• Experience working with global teams in different time zones. (e.g., US)

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