Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

About the role

Plume builds an open, hardware-independent service delivery platform for smart homes, small businesses and enterprises, serving over 60 million locations and managing more than 3 billion devices. As a Staff Software Engineer you will be a key member of an engineering team responsible for the full lifecycle of Plume's high-scale cloud platform, keeping a globally distributed architecture reliable at scale. The role supports Tier 1 customers (Charter, Bell, LGI, Jio, J:COM) and the stability of environments managing Wi-Fi and security for over 65 million homes.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable microservices using Node.js (NestJS) and Scala (Akka), with a transition toward Rust and Go
• Lead the refactoring of legacy monolithic services into discrete microservices
• Architect and manage data persistence layers across SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (Mongo/DocumentDB), using Redis for caching and Kafka for event streaming
• Improve performance, efficiency and cost, addressing messaging, connectivity, cross-region latency and compute/memory usage
• Build self-healing services and implement Blue/Green and Canary deployments with infrastructure-as-code
• Provide third-line support for production environments and take part in a compensated, opt-in on-call rotation covering US, EU and APAC teams

Required profile

• Proven experience in distributed systems and backend architecture
• Strong experience with Scala or Java (Akka is a plus); TypeScript/Node.js desired (Loopback 3 or NestJS a plus)
• Basic knowledge of Rust and Go
• Ability to work in a global team across multiple time zones and cultures

Required skills

• Kafka, Postgres and MongoDB/DocumentDB
• AWS (including SageMaker, Data Pipelines) and GCP
• HTTP/HTTPS, gRPC, REST APIs and API integration patterns

What we offer

• Additional compensation for on-call participation
• Structured objectives via Lattice focused on cross-functional skill acquisition
• Company-sponsored training for key technologies