Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Palo Alto, CA, United States

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 50 million locations globally and have managed over 2.5 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 Communications Service Providers (CSPs) 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.

Opportunity

We’re looking for infrastructure engineers who have an affinity with Networking, Cloud Governance, and Security, in addition to Organizational skills. You will be participating in next-generation networking and security policy automation, as well as maintaining and continuously improving our existing Production systems. If you have been looking forward to or have previous technical leadership experience, this position is for you.

What You’ll Do

Design, implement, and upgrade Cloud Network Infrastructure

Design and Implement Cloud Governance for a mid-size organization with various service teams

Write automation code for Networking and Role Based Access Control

Coordinate team project roadmap with DevOps Leadership

Triage support queue for the team

Focus on Production operations/matters and on-call

Provision and scale multi-datacenter Kubernetes Infrastructure and Applications (EKS)

Deploy Software in multiple Production Environments

Own monitoring and alerting to production systems, improvements, and changes

Contribute improvements to the current automation

Contribute improvements to our on-call process and alerting

What You’ll Bring

Availability to be in on-call rotation for Production issues

Availability to work with a distributed team in different timezones

Desired Skill Set

10+ years of experience in Programming/Scripting for systems - one of the following

eg. Perl, Python, PHP, GoLang, Java, etc

10+ years of experience with modern cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS

Expert experience with modern Linux Operating systems (Enterprise Linux or Debian-based)

Expert experience with modern cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS

Expert experience with Production Troubleshooting

Kubernetes Knowledge (operate)

Basic Terraform Knowledge

Experience both setting up and utilizing Monitoring and observability tools

e.g. Grafana, Prometheus

Ability and desire to perform in a Technical Leadership capacity for a small team\

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Differentiators

Previous experience leading other engineers in small teams or mid to long-term projects

Passion for organization, communication, and data-driven results

Troubleshooting production performance/service degradation or outage issues at scale

Experience with Infrastructure Troubleshooting in VMs and/or Bare Metal (SSH/Linux)

Advanced Kubernetes knowledge

Advanced Terraform knowledge

Experience operating NoSQL Databases in Production

Experience operating Relational Databases in Production

Knowledge of distributed systems - Spark/EMR/Batch systems, storage, database, or streaming

Generic Configuration Management experience

The total Compensation package would include an anticipated salary range of $175,000.00 to $206,000.00 + bonus + equity + benefits. Benefits include a 401k plan and a company match, basic life insurance plus unparalleled health, dental, vision, and other benefits and perks. Please see here for more details. An employee’s base salary and 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.

HYBRID  -  This position requires someone to come into our Palo Alto, CA office 3 days a week.

About Plume

As the creator of the only open, hardware-independent, cloud-controlled experience platform for CSPs and their subscribers, Plume partners with over 350 CSP 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 CSPs to decouple their service offerings from hardware and rapidly curate and deliver new services over a multi-vendor, open-platform architecture.

Backed by investors such as Insight Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Plume is now valued at $2.6B, having added over $500M in funding in 2021 alone.

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.