--- title: 'Manager, Engineering at Plume' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/manager-engineering-plume-hyderabad-cnm93z6x1dda' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Manager, Engineering at Plume - **Company:** Plume - **Location:** Hyderabad, India - **Posted:** 2026-08-21 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://www.plume.com/career-opportunities/?gh_jid=8733174002 ## Job description Life at Plume At Plume, we believe that technology isn't about moving faster, it's about making life’s moments better. Which is why we’ve built the world's first, and only, open and hardware-independent service delivery platform for smart homes, small businesses, enterprises, and beyond. Our SaaS platform uses WiFi, advanced AI, and machine learning to create the future of connected spaces—and human experiences—at massive scale. We now deliver services to over 60 million locations globally and have managed over 3 billion devices on our platform. We’re expanding rapidly, pioneering a new category, and we achieved our Series F funding in just four years. Our customers include many of the world's largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who look to Plume to help them evolve their smart home offerings while gleaning insights from their own data. 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. This is a work-from-office / In-Office role based in our Hyderabad, India location. Plume is looking for a hands-on engineering leader to build and run a product/feature team that owns the heart of our connectivity product: Wi-Fi optimization, standards-based device management over TR-369 (USP) and TR-181, device provisioning and lifecycle, and the cloud-based controller that orchestrates all of it across WAN and LAN. You will own the roadmap, the architecture and the people for a team of 10-20 engineers spanning embedded, cloud and networking disciplines and you will still be close enough to the code to review a design, debug a customer escalation, and make the hard technical call yourself. Your team's software runs on tens of millions of live gateways and access points at some of the world's largest ISPs, so the decisions you make are felt at real scale, by real subscribers, immediately. You will work shoulder to shoulder with Product Management, cloud and firmware teams across three continents, and directly with ISP customers. If you want the ownership of a founding team leader with the leverage of an established platform, this is that role. What You'll Do: Lead the team - Build, lead and grow a team of 8–12 engineers in Hyderabad — hire, onboard, coach, run 1:1s, set expectations and own performance and career development - Establish the engineering culture for a growing site: high standards on design review, code quality, testing and on-call discipline - Grow senior engineers into technical leaders and create clear paths for the people who don't want to manage - Partner with recruiting to raise the bar on hiring, and represent Plume credibly to strong candidates Own the outcome - Own end-to-end delivery for your feature area: planning, prioritisation, execution, quality and operational health in production - Translate product strategy with Product Management into a technical roadmap, then hold the team to it — including the trade-offs about what not to build - Drive cross-team execution with cloud, firmware, data and QA groups across multiple time zones - Represent your area in escalations and in front of ISP customers; understand their problems and get them surgically solved Stay Technical - Set architectural direction for Wi-Fi optimization, device provisioning and lifecycle management, the cloud controller, and WAN/LAN feature delivery - Lead design reviews, write and review code where it matters most, and remain the person who can go deep on a hard bug - Own the TR-369 (USP) and TR-181 data model strategy — how the platform is modelled, versioned and evolved across a multi-vendor device fleet - Drive scale, latency and reliability decisions for a system managing tens of millions of devices - Represent Plume in external forums such as the Broadband Forum, RDK-B, prpl Foundation and the Wi-Fi Alliance What You'll Bring: - 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years directly managing or formally leading engineering teams - A track record of shipping production software in networking, connectivity, broadband CPE or a closely adjacent domain - Deep, current hands-on strength in at least one of C/C++, Java, Go or Python, and the ability to be technically credible across the rest of the stack - Strong command of computer networking: L2/L3/L4, routing, switching, NAT, DHCP, DNS, VLANs, WAN and LAN architectures, and IEEE 802.11 - Working knowledge of standards-based device management — TR-369 (USP), TR-181, TR-069 — and what it takes to operate a data model across a heterogeneous device fleet - Experience with device provisioning, zero-touch onboarding, firmware/OTA update flows and device lifecycle at scale - Experience with cloud-based control planes: distributed systems, microservices, event streaming, stateful services, and the operational reality of running them - Demonstrated ability to grow engineers, give direct feedback well, and manage performance honestly - Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable being the technical voice in front of a customer or an executive - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Telecommunications or equivalent practical experience Bonus Points For: - Experience with Wi-Fi optimization or RRM — channel and band steering, mesh topology optimization, client steering, airtime fairness - Hands-on work with OpenSync, RDK-B, prplOS, OpenWRT, hostapd/wpa_supplicant or EasyMesh (R2/R3) - Wi-Fi 6E / Wi-Fi 7 features such as MLO, OFDMA and MU-MIMO - Applied ML or data-driven optimization in a networking product - Experience working directly with ISPs or telecom operators as a customer - Prior experience standing up or scaling an engineering site or a new team - Contributions to open-source connectivity projects or standards bodies ## About Plume As the creator of the only open, hardware-independent, cloud-controlled experience platform for ISPs and their subscribers, Plume partners with over 400 ISP customers, including some of the world’s largest such as Charter, Liberty Global, and J:COM. Using OpenSync, the most widely supported open-source, silicon-to-cloud framework for smart spaces, Plume’s software-defined network allows ISPs to decouple their service offerings from hardware and rapidly curate and deliver new services over a multi-vendor, open-platform architecture. Plume is an equal opportunity workplace that maintains a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in all employment practices and decisions, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related individual conditions, medical conditions (as defined by state law), military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. ## About Plume ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Plume provides a cloud-managed, AI-powered platform for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to deliver optimized Wi-Fi, security, and subscriber experience services to homes and businesses. - **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Late-stage Venture, $722.4M total funding) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Not publicly listed as a single founder; the company was founded by a team of engineers and technologists. ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Telecommunications, Smart Home Technology, AI/Cloud-Managed Wi-Fi, Cybersecurity - **Target customers**: B2B – primarily Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Communications Service Providers (CSPs) globally. End-users are the ISPs' subscribers (households and small businesses). - **Mission or purpose statement**: To accelerate the evolution of smart spaces and deliver smart technology to homes, businesses, and beyond, creating more connected moments. ## Products & Services - **Plume Cloud Platform (Intelligence, Orchestration, Engagement)**: The core SaaS platform that uses AI and data from over 500 million connected devices to provide self-optimizing Wi-Fi, network security, and subscriber engagement tools for ISPs. - **OpenSync®**: An open-source framework that allows ISPs to deploy Plume's services on any compatible hardware, enabling flexibility and broad integration. - **Sweepr (Acquired)**: An AI-powered care orchestration platform that helps telecom operators automate and personalize customer support journeys (onboarding, technical support, billing), reducing call center costs. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. Total funding is $722.4M. - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $100.0M (estimated). Total Funding of $722.4M across 7 rounds. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Key investors include Insight Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and others. Partners include major ISPs like Bell, Charter, Jio, J:COM, Liberty Global, and FPT Telecom. The company has partnerships with leading silicon, CPE, and platform SDK vendors. - **Growth Signals**: - Expanded ISP partnerships to more than 450 across 58 countries. - Acquired Sweepr, an AI care orchestration platform. - Launched the industry’s first open Agentic AI platform for ISPs. - Deployed advanced WiFi 7 technology with marquee ISPs like J:COM and FPT Telecom. - Headcount grew 7.2% year-over-year to 343 employees. - Active job postings increased 35.3% year-over-year. - Received "Most Loved Workplace®" Certification in 2026. ## Competitive Advantages - **Massive Data Moat**: The platform collects telemetry and insights from nearly 500 million connected devices, creating a unique dataset to train its AI models for predictive optimization and proactive care. - **Open and Flexible Architecture**: OpenSync® is an open-source framework, allowing ISPs to use any hardware they choose, reducing vendor lock-in and enabling broader market adoption. - **End-to-End Solution**: The acquisition of Sweepr unifies network intelligence and digital care into a single platform, offering ISPs a complete workflow solution from network optimization to customer support. ## Strategic Focus - **Agentic AI & Automation**: Leading with an open Agentic AI platform to automate network management and customer care, reducing operational costs for ISPs. - **Global ISP Expansion**: Deepening partnerships with existing ISPs and expanding into new markets, particularly with advanced technologies like WiFi 7. - **Culture Transformation**: Under new CEO Dan Herscovici (appointed April 2025), a major focus is on rebuilding trust, strengthening accountability, and creating an inclusive, employee-first culture. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Recognition**: Recently (April 2026) earned "Most Loved Workplace®" Certification, a significant milestone following a company-wide culture transformation. Employees report deep positive sentiment and alignment with company values. - **Global & Remote-First**: Plume operates in 28 countries and has a remote/flexible work policy. Offices are located in Palo Alto, CA, and other global hubs. - **Comprehensive Benefits**: Competitive health insurance, generous vacation, health/wellness reimbursement (including Premium Strava membership), retirement savings contributions, monthly data/phone allowance, home-office setup allowance, parental leave, and professional development opportunities. - **Diverse & Inclusive**: Explicitly states an inclusive environment where people of all identities are welcome, and hiring is based on merit. - **Innovative Work**: Engineers work on cutting-edge technology including AI, cloud-scale data platforms, WiFi 7, and embedded systems, solving complex problems for a global customer base. - **Interview Process**: Streamlined: Recruiter > Hiring Manager > Panel Interview > Executive Interview. Technical assessments are included for engineering roles. ## Sources 1. [plume.com - About Us](https://www.plume.com/about) 2. [plume.com - Careers](https://www.plume.com/careers) 3. [plume.com - Most Loved Workplace Press Release](https://www.plume.com/newsroom/plume-earns-certified-most-loved-workplace-recognition) 4. [LinkedIn - Plume](https://www.linkedin.com/company/plume-wifi) 5. 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