Firmware Engineer, Data Center

The internet runs the world. Organizations across the worldfrom offices and schools to data centers and manufacturing facilitiesspend billions annually on computer networking to stay productive.

However these networks are messy and brittle. Traditional networking companies only build one piece of the puzzleeither hardware software or operationsbut never all three leading to inefficient silos and slow changes. Network engineers who are the lifeblood of the industryare often left scrambling to fix issues hand editing configs guess-and-checking solutions and worrying how the ever-increasing complexity of the system they manage will break.

Meter has spent the last decade vertically integrating the fragmented computer networking industry across hardware (power routing switches security wireless) firmware operating systems and real-world operations. By owning the full stack we make it exceptionally easy for any business to have great networking internet and Wi-Fi. We believe people who build hardware and software should be the ones responsible for it. Our ambition is to evolve internet infrastructure into a utility and we raised a $170M Series C to advance our work.

Weve extended Meters hardware firmware and infrastructure platforms to include Ethernet top-of-rack and spine switching.

Paired with Meters end-to-end delivery model customers get one accountable operator instead of a stitched-together stack of vendors the team that designs the hardware also writes the OS builds the monitoring software and runs the deployment. Pricing is tied to power consumption which is how businesses actually buy data center capacity today. Learn more about our approach to automation at .

You will build and design a performant switch OS and firmware similar to SONiC. You will work cross-functionally working closely with Meters engineering leadership hardware QA and infrastructure teams who have previously built some of the most widely deployed products in networking.

Within six months youll have shipped firmware critical to the adoption of our TOR and Spine switches. By the end of your first year your success will be measured by the following:

• Code quality: Our customers rely on us to deliver reliable performant infrastructure for their workloads. Prioritizing simplicity maintainability and readability in addition to ensuring code is performant and well-tested is highly valued.

• Code velocity: Quality and speed arent always at odds. Obsession with delivering a quality product can make moving quickly exciting. Moving quickly manifests itself in multiple ways sunsetting bad ideas trying new ones collecting feedback and building the most practical solution given a customer need.

• Scoping writing and testing features relevant for our switch OS.

• Work closely with senior engineers on hardware firmware QA and infrastructure teams.

• Work with select beta customers to test features and seek product feedback.

• Stay current on technical research in data center hardware/networking and distribute this knowledge across Meters engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP L2/L3 networking).

• Proficiency in C/C (with Golang or similar backend languages a plus).

• Excited to play an early and broadly influential role in the development of Meters Data Center products.

• A mindset of curiosity and impact motivated by turning complex systems into simple elegant customer experiences.

• A track record of identifying issues before they arise and bringing clear solutions to your dependent engineering teams.

• Youre known to be dependable kind and autonomous.

• The estimated pay range for this role is $210000 - $300000.

• Additionally this role is eligible to participate in Meters equity plan.

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