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About the Role:

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

Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you!

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