Software Technical Leader, Remote, Canada

The application window is expected to close on: 12/28/2026 NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

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, we've created an unrivaled company culture for our employees. One that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive and provides employees with the autonomy to develop technology that's intuitive, secure, and accessible for everyone.

Our customers use the Meraki web dashboard and programmable APIs to monitor, configure, and automate critical IT infrastructure that serves tens of millions of people every single day!. The Mars team is responsible for bringing Meraki Dashboard features to the Cisco Catalyst family.

Your Impact

Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable delightful user experiences and measurable business growth

Ensure reliability, performance and operational excellence of these systems by adding tests, telemetry and alerting systems

Take complete ownership from conception to production release by demonstrating your ability to influence, facilitate, and work across different teams.

Partner with EM/PM and other collaborators so define teams direction based on engineering and business priorities

Solve software defects, networking issues, and customer-reported problems while improving performance, scalability, and reliability.

Minimum Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field and 12+ years of related experience, or a Master’s degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience.

Experience in professional coding web backend technologies, using languages such as Ruby on Rails, or Go/Ruby/Python or similar and rolling services out safely to customers using feature flags, A/B tests etc.

Experience making architectural and system design choices.

Experience in coaching team members.

Experience in an agile engineering team and solving open-ended problems across the stack.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with networking devices.

Experience with Emulation and Simulation of Networking devices

Experience with Cisco CML.

Experience systems software design, or large-scale distributed networking solutions.

Experience working across cross-functional or geographically distributed engineering teams. teams.

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Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada

The starting salary range posted for this position is $162,300.00 to $234,800.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.