Manager, Engineering

As Manager of Engineering at Plume, you will build and run a product team that owns the core connectivity platform: 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. You will own the roadmap, architecture, and people for a team of 10-20 engineers spanning embedded, cloud, and networking disciplines, while staying close enough to the code to review designs, debug escalations, and make hard technical calls 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 your decisions are felt immediately at real scale.

What you'll do

• 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 with high standards on design review, code quality, testing, and on-call discipline
• Grow senior engineers into technical leaders and create clear paths for engineers who do not want to manage
• Partner with recruiting to raise the bar on hiring and represent Plume credibly to strong candidates
• 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 and hold the team to it, including decisions 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 solve them
• 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 able to go deep on hard bugs
• 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 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 technical credibility 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 and 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

Nice to have

• 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 or 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

What we offer

• Work-from-office role based in Hyderabad, India

About Plume

Plume is the creator of the only open, hardware-independent, cloud-controlled experience platform for ISPs and their subscribers. The company 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 delivers services to over 60 million locations globally and has managed over 3 billion devices on its platform.