About Cisco Meraki

As the leader in cloud-managed IT, Cisco Meraki connects passionate people to their mission by simplifying the digital workplace. Our impact is driven by the innovative, purposeful, and vibrant people who make up our inclusive community. When technology is intuitive, our customers can focus on what matters.

Our employees fuel the magic of the Meraki community. They have fostered an environment that empowers Merakians to challenge limits, embrace risks, and assist our customers in pursuing their missions.

Our guiding principles are rooted in our four core values: 'care deeply,' 'everybody in,' 'simplify everything,' and 'be brave.' These pillars have propelled us to the forefront of cloud-managed IT leadership and have played a pivotal role in shaping a more inclusive future for all.
The Opportunity

As a Meraki Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate with UI, backend, and firmware engineers to help craft, plan, and build new test frameworks and tests for our new and existing Meraki Dashboard features. With the help of the product manager and other team members, you will solve meaningful problems to help all the engineers here at Meraki.

We are seeking a senior cloud test software engineer who is as passionate about quality as we are! Your contributions will have a direct impact on the success of our team's mission, not to mention our customers' lives!

*** Please note: This position requires that you commute to the San Francisco, CA office 2-3 days per week. ***
About the Team

The Cloud tools and test platform team is responsible for testing the infrastructure of all the cloud projects in Meraki. This includes the development of testing infrastructure for innovative new features spanning from the web to mobile, to hardware connectivity, to data generation, and developing the testing framework itself to support new use cases and workflows.
What Will You Do?

Our products are used in over a million networks and our customers rely on our products to serve ten million people. With our large footprint, quality is our highest priority. We are looking for a test engineer who is as passionate about quality as we are. Your contributions will make a direct impact on the success of our business.
Example projects of a Senior Software Test Engineer

• Identify test cases and build a feature test plan.
• Automate and execute test cases automation in some cadence and strategize the testing.
• Run defect triages for product teams.
• Communicate to stakeholders about any outstanding issues.
• Develop and promote good testing practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and be a Networking domain guide.

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years of hands-on experience testing/building and maintaining test plans, helping with automation efforts, and delivering scalable solutions.
• Hands-on experience with networking technologies such as IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, VLAN, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, etc.
• Strong ability to write quality (automation test code) with Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Ruby.
• Ability to work independently with Product Managers/Customers and develop test plans aligned to business priorities
• You like thinking about systems and architecture to include edge cases, failure scenarios - and full lifecycle. You're interested and experienced in making systems more resilient and fault tolerant.
• Project Leadership - act as technical lead for projects, define and deliver well-scoped milestones for a project, and identify the right solutions to tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems
• Debug sophisticated technical problems and find solutions.
• You are passionate about building testing frameworks, and processes to help deliver a phenomenal product experience.
• Experience with supporting, maintaining, and scaling automation in a CI/CD environment.
• Used development infrastructure tools such as Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, and JIRA.
• The successful applicant may be performing work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

Bonus points if you have

• Networking lab setup experience.
• Web automation experience e.g. Cypress, Selenium.
• Experience with Rails.
• Experience with QA processes - expanding test coverage, writing tests, test case management, etc.

As a Cisco Meraki Employee, you can expect

• A supportive and lively environment and a team that values your contributions.
• There are a lot of opportunities for professional and personal growth via employee-led groups. Check out one of our groups - Women of Meraki on Twitter and Instagram.
• Actionable and candid feedback regularly following Progressive Candor.
• Delicious catered meals every day fully-stocked kitchens and all-you-can-eat snacks.
• Paid time off to volunteer, and much more.

Life at Cisco Meraki

We are passionate about building real products that our customers love. We are confident you will love it here!

Meraki is based in the Mission Bay area of San Francisco, with beautiful views of the Oracle Ballpark and the Bay beyond where you will have access to an onsite gym, multiple kitchens stocked with high-quality snacks, a coffee bar, and catered lunches every day, and we offer a generous benefits package to all of our Merakians.

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.

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 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.

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.