Leader, Software Engineering - Backend | 12+ Yrs | Bangalore

Job description

Meet the Team At Cisco Meraki, our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. Our culture is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive, giving employees the autonomy to build technology that is intuitive, secure, and accessible. The Mars team brings Meraki Dashboard features to the Cisco Catalyst family, enabling customers to manage and automate critical network infrastructure at scale. Your Impact As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead, support, and develop a team of approximately 8-10 software engineers. You will own the team's outcomes from planning through production, setting clear priorities, establishing realistic milestones, managing dependencies, and ensuring the delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure solutions. You will remain technically engaged, partnering with senior engineers on architecture, system design, and sophisticated software and networking challenges. You will work closely with Product Management, Engineering, and other cross-functional partners to build roadmaps and translate loosely defined business needs into clear execution plans. You will foster a culture of ownership, accountability, curiosity, and continuous learning, where people communicate clearly, raise risks early, and approach difficult conversations with courage and respect. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 12+ years of related software engineering experience, or Master's with 10+ years, or PhD with 5+ years. 3+ years of hands-on people-management experience, with demonstrated success leading, mentoring, and developing a team of approximately 8-10 software engineers. Strong familiarity with backend application development using technologies such as Ruby on Rails and Python, as well as containerized and cloud-native environments using Docker and Kubernetes. Demonstrated experience with architecture, system design, technical trade-offs, and distributed systems, along with the ability to coach engineers on these areas. Practical experience with emulation and simulation of networking devices and solving software/networking issues across the stack. Experience leading projects from loosely defined business problems through delivery, including defining milestones, tracking metrics, and managing cross-functional dependencies. Demonstrated curiosity, accountability, and clear communication, including the courage to surface risks early, discuss difficult topics constructively, align stakeholders, and learn new technologies or domains. Preferred Qualifications Experience working with networking devices and technologies. Experience with Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) or similar network emulation/simulation platforms. Experience in systems software design or large-scale distributed networking solutions. Experience working across multi-functional and geographically distributed engineering teams. Experience with product roadmap planning, resource estimation, Agile development practices, and customer/partner engagement. 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.