Fiber internet provider building rural broadband across the Great Lakes
Surf Internet is an Elkhart-based fiber ISP extending broadband to rural Illinois, Indiana and Michigan communities. Hiring tilts heavily toward junior sales and construction roles, with door-to-door selling and gross-add targets pointing to a build-then-sell growth model. The stack pairs carrier-grade network gear (Juniper, Adtran, Infinera, MikroTik) with Sitetracker for deployment management and NetSuite for finance.
Surf Internet delivers fiber-optic internet to residential and commercial customers, focused on underserved rural communities in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. The company was founded in 1999, is privately held and employs 201–500 people. It is headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana, with additional offices in La Porte, IN, Byron Center, MI, and Coal City and Rock Falls, IL. Services span fiber internet, lit and dark fiber, wide area networks, wireless internet and VoIP.
Surf Internet runs Juniper, Adtran, Infinera, MikroTik, Ubiquiti and Cambium network gear, plus Sitetracker, NetSuite, HubSpot, Salesforce, Okta, NinjaOne and Cloudflare.
Yes. Sales is the largest hiring area, mostly junior roles, including door-to-door fiber sales tied to market penetration and gross-add goals, alongside construction and operations roles.
Surf Internet serves rural communities across Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, headquartered in Elkhart, IN, with offices in La Porte, Byron Center, Coal City and Rock Falls.
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