Firmware Engineer, Data Centers

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. You will work cross-functionally with Meters engineering leadership hardware QA and infrastructure teams who have previously built some of the most widely deployed products in networking.

In your first 6-12 months youll have worked towards the following outcomes relevant to our current and future TOR and Spine switches:

• Bring new switches to production by integrating and validating the switching chip SDK with reliable boot all ports operational and drivers passing QA.

• Scale our systems implementation of protocols such as BGP ECMP LACP VXLAN and EVPN with one (of many) goals being observing every event on every device in every network. This will require working with relevant teams on data models and feature scoping.

• Improve firmware releases by working on the bring up process and further automating monitoring upgrades and rollbacks; your work should pass a 30-day stress test with no firmware crashes or unexplained link drops.

• Proficiency in writing and debugging embedded Linux software firmware or device drivers in C/C.

• Experience with switching SDKs is a plus as is familiarity with Golang or similar backend languages.

• Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP L2/L3 networking) is helpful. However were happy to have a sufficiently motivated person learn quickly on the job.

• 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.

• You raise issues early and are known to be dependable kind and autonomous.

• The estimated pay range for this role is $210000 - $250000.

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

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