Senior Backend Engineer, Plume Design
$127.5-150k
+ Bonus and equity
Platform for communications service providers
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Platform for communications service providers
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$127.5-150k
+ Bonus and equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To keep you in the flow with any experiences you turn on.
Role
Who you are
- Strong proficiency in Scala, Go, or Java (experience with multiple is a plus)
- Proven experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Fundamental understanding of computer networking (including Wi-Fi), operating system, and database
- Hands-on expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Familiarity with data engineering (ETL pipelines, real-time streaming with Kafka/Pulsar, batch processing frameworks)
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB)
- Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in an agile, squad-based environment
Desirable
- Functional programming experience in Scala
- Experience with caching layers, distributed storage, and message queues
- Familiarity with AI-powered developer tools such as ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar to boost productivity
- Contributions to open-source projects or personal projects showcasing backend innovation
What the job involves
- With a bias for action and a love for being trailblazers, the team at Plume embodies a combination of relentless curiosity and imaginative innovation
- We challenge ourselves to think in ways that other companies don't, work to do what should be done (rather than what can), and if we can’t do it exceptionally well, we don’t do it
- It’s how we've assembled a team of world-class builders, thinkers, and doers. And it’s how we’re reinventing what’s possible every day
- API Development: Design, implement, and maintain RESTful and gRPC APIs powering internal and external applications
- Cloud Microservices: Architect and deploy scalable microservices in AWS/GCP/Azure using Kubernetes and modern DevOps practices
- Data Pipelines: Build real-time and batch data pipelines, ensuring data accuracy, performance, and observability (EMR on EKS)
- Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional squad members to deliver features end-to-end, from concept to production
- System Reliability: Optimize services for scalability, resilience, and high availability
- Engineering Excellence: Contribute to architecture discussions, enforce coding standards, and drive best practices in CI/CD, testing, and monitoring
- Security: Embed security and compliance into backend systems and data workflows
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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