Senior Software Engineer, Core Networking

Meet the Team

Cisco Meraki, a division of Cisco Networking, is a leader in cloud-managed IT, powering cloud-controlled switching, routing, wireless, and security for organizations of all sizes.

Our Switching Cloud Dashboard team builds intuitive, scalable, and reliable web experiences that enable IT professionals to design, monitor, and operate networks with confidence. We work at the intersection of deep networking expertise and modern web engineering, transforming complex network data into clear, actionable insights.

Your Impact

As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Networking on the Cisco Meraki Switching Cloud Dashboard team, you will design and build network-centric workflows and user experiences that directly impact how customers operate and scale their networks. This role is exciting because it combines strong networking fundamentals with hands-on web application development, allowing you to solve real-world networking challenges through elegant, high-quality user interfaces.

You Will

• Design and build network-centric workflows and user experiences for IT professionals using the Cisco Switching Cloud Dashboard.
• Apply strong networking fundamentals to design, implement, and troubleshoot features that interact with switching, routing, and network telemetry systems.
• Collaborate closely with networking engineers, backend engineers, product managers, and UX designers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Solve scalability, reliability, and performance challenges to support a rapidly growing user base while maintaining high availability.
• Translate complex network state, configuration, and operational data into clear, usable, and reliable web interfaces.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including strong hands-on experience with Fullstack/ React or modern web frameworks.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 concepts, and understanding of common LAN and WAN protocols.
• Experience building production-grade web applications that consume APIs and represent complex, real-time, or asynchronous data.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern front-end development practices.
• Ability to reason about network behavior, latency, failures, and data consistency when designing user-facing features.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong experience in the networking domain, particularly switching and Layer 2 technologies.
• Experience working on network management, observability, or control-plane systems.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience contributing to large-scale, cloud-managed platforms or distributed systems.

Bonus Points

• Ability and willingness to work on proof-of-concept spikes and exploratory engineering efforts.
• Experience translating complex technical networking concepts into intuitive user experiences.

What We’re Looking For

For this role, networking expertise is essential. We are seeking an engineer who can reason deeply about networking concepts and apply that knowledge while building high-quality web applications using React and modern front-end technologies.

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.

Key skills/competency

• Core Networking
• Layer 2/Layer 3 Protocols
• React.js
• Fullstack Development
• Web Application Development
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• API Integration
• Scalability
• Distributed Systems
• User Experience (UX)