Product Manager, Firewall

Meter•San Francisco, CA

46d•$205,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Deliver the best firewall, routing, and SD-WAN solution on the market by working with brilliant, hard-working, and experienced engineers. This role comes with significant responsibility, autonomy, and direct impact on customer outcomes. Specifically, you will work on features for our firewall, such as Site-to-Site VPN (thousands of hubs and spokes), ACLs, BGP over WAN, BGP over AutoVPN, DNS security, IDS/IPS, etc. Zooming out, Meter is a vertically integrated stack from ISP, Firewall, Routing, SD-WAN, Security, Wireless, Switching, Mobile, and Power. This vertical integration allows us to deliver great networking and outcomes for our customers. Meter’s goal is to build the best-in-class product for each platform and that only happens when our hardware and software teams work together. Meter’s architecture is modular at every layer, and this is what allows us to build products and features at a very high velocity (OS, firmware, data plane, control plane, backend/API, and Dashboard/UI/UX). You need to have a thorough understanding of routing, ACLs, NAT, BGP, OSPF, and packet policy.

Requirements

Thorough understanding of routing, ACLs, NAT, BGP, OSPF, and packet policy.
Built products in the enterprise security or networking industry.
Deeply understand how IT administrators and network engineers use products.
Know the difficulties managing firewall policies across thousands of devices in critical environments.
Communicate with clarity across technical and non-technical audiences.
Bring teams into alignment without needing formal authority.
Shipped incrementally, learned from imperfect v1s, and kept a team pointed in the same direction even when the problem got messier than expected.
Ability to absorb information quickly, learn fast, make quick decisions, experiment readily, keep an open mind, and work as a team without exception.

Nice To Haves

Understand customer pain points.
You don't need a fully defined playbook to get started. You see a customer's need and run toward it.

Responsibilities

Work with firewall firmware engineers to design features and weigh in on tradeoffs.
Understand and organize requests from the support team.
Triage bugs found by the Quality Engineering (QE) team.
Join QBR calls with a customer.
Plan a weekly roadmap with our cofounder.
Collaborate with the backend team building our APIs.
Collaborate with the frontend team building our Dashboard.
Collaborate with the models team building our autonomous model.
Collaborate with the QE team to make sure what we release is exceptionally stable and easy to deploy.