Director of Engineering, Plume Design
$182-429k
+ Bonus and equity
Platform for communications service providers
Open for applications
Platform for communications service providers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$182-429k
+ Bonus and equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To keep you in the flow with any experiences you turn on.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, containerization, and data-intensive distributed systems
- Proven ability to set technical direction and align cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects on time
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with a track record of building high-performing engineering teams
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to balance technical depth and business priorities
- Experience managing cloud cost, compliance, and security at scale
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with AWS ecosystem and infrastructure automation tools (e.g., CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Knowledge of NoSQL and data-intensive technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Cassandra)
- Familiarity with programming languages such as Java, Scala, or TypeScript/JavaScript
What the job involves
- Plume is scaling its cloud organization to deliver a new generation of data-driven services at global scale
- We are seeking a visionary and results-oriented Cloud Director to lead the design, development, and operation of our cloud platform
- In this high-impact role, you will drive the strategy for highly available, distributed cloud services that process and manage data at petabyte scale
- You will partner with product, engineering, and business leaders to define and execute the roadmap, while mentoring and building a world-class team of cloud engineers
- Define the strategic vision and technical roadmap for Plume’s cloud services platform, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of cloud engineers and architects, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability
- Partner with product managers and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into cloud architecture and execution plans
- Oversee the full software lifecycle: from architecture and design, to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
- Establish and enforce best practices for coding, architecture, and operations across the organization
- Drive adoption of modern cloud-native technologies, including container orchestration, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code
- Ensure compliance, cost optimization, and operational excellence across the cloud ecosystem
- Act as an escalation point for critical production issues, ensuring rapid resolution and minimal business disruption
Our take
Smart devices within the home have become the norm, but Plume Design believes that this influx of revolutionary home tech is only as smart as the networks that support them. With many issues concerning smart devices, treatment is reliant on generic WiFi, unsafe networks, and expensive analysis. Plume Design remedies this with cloud-controlled internet platforms that are defined by the needs of the devices that use them.
With home office setups now the norm, Plume has fast become a necessary service for many small businesses and casual users. Its smart Wi-Fi networks are ground-level products upon which Plume offers more smart home services and it now has more than a billion devices on its network.
With substantial funding behind it, Plume’s post-COVID surge in business was one thing, but keeping up the momentum throughout the 2020s is quite another. Time will tell if the company can continue on its upward trajectory. But as long as it keeps its networks fresh (as it did in 2022 through its partnership with opensync software agent SamKnows), it shouldn’t have a problem as it scales up.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2021
$300m
LATE VC
Feb 2021
$270m
SERIES E
Total funding: $697.4m
Company benefits
- Lifetime Plume HomePass membership
- Allowance for home-office set up
- Monthly data or phone allowance
- Plume employee referral bonus program
- Public transportation reimbursement
- Retirement savings contributions
- Employee discounts
- Patent submission support and incentive award program
- Competitive and comprehensive health insurance coverage and extended benefits such as dental, vision, life, short/long-term disability insurance, and FSA/HSA (detailed coverage may vary by location)
- Employee assistance program
- Generous vacation policy to ensure time to recharge (open paid time off or generous accrued paid time off based on location)
- Health and wellness reimbursement and a Premium Strava membership
- Holistic health platform through Walking on Earth
- Generous parental leave policy
- Online and in-person team-building events
- PlumeStrong - our corporate social responsibility program designed to apply our resources (time, brainpower, product, money) for good
- Remote/flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
- Immigration support
Company HQ
Downtown North, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Sri Nathan
(Vice President of Major Accounts)Previously Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Development at Menara Networks, Vice President and Executive Consultant at Schema, and CEO at Liwana Technologies and Jasmine Networks.
Fahri Diner
(Chief Servant of Plume's people, customers and stakeholders)Currently Board Member at Kateeva and Tula Technology, Managing Director at Sigma Partners and Proprietor at Skipstone.
Adam Hotchkiss
(Vice President of Customer Solutions)Previously Vice President of Menara Networks, Sales at ADVA Optical Networking, Product Line Management at Qtera / Nortel and Product Manager at Fujitsu Network Communications.
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