Staff Engineer

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven, hands-on experience building and operating large-scale cloud-distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in Go and Python .
• Demonstrated experience technically leading a small team and mentoring junior engineers on architecture and implementation.
• Strong communication skills
• Proven experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Fundamental understanding of computer networking (including Wi-Fi), operating systems, and databases.
• Hands-on expertise in AWS (primary cloud) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker); GCP experience a plus.
• Experience with real-time streaming (Kafka/Pulsar) and batch data pipeline frameworks (e.g., Spark).
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
• Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
• Comfortable in a fully remote, globally distributed team as this role requires daily overlap with teammates in various geographies.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in an agile, squad-based environment; focused on technical/architectural decision-making rather than business-facing work.

Nice to Have

• Scala experience (legacy stack).
• Experience with caching layers, distributed storage, and message queues.
• Familiarity with AI-powered developer tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar to boost productivity.
• Contributions to open-source projects or personal projects showcasing backend innovation.

We are unable to offer sponsorship at this time.

Total Compensation package would include: anticipated base compensation range of $150,000 – $170,000 + up to 15% bonus + equity + benefits.

include a 401k plan with company match, basic life insurance, and unparalleled health, dental, vision and other benefits and perks.

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An employee's base salary and its position within the range may depend on a number of factors including job related knowledge, education, skills, experience and other business related considerations.

Published ranges are provided in good faith at the time of posting.

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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 Comcast, 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.

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