Manager, Engineering

About the role

Plume is building the world's first open, hardware-independent service delivery platform for smart homes and enterprises, using Wi-Fi, AI, and machine learning to manage connected spaces at massive scale. The Manager, Engineering in Hyderabad, India will build and run a product/feature team owning the heart of the 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 across WAN and LAN. This is a hands-on leader who owns the roadmap, architecture, and people for a team of 8–12 engineers spanning embedded, cloud, and networking disciplines, while staying close enough to the code to review designs, debug escalations, and make hard technical calls. The role is an in-office position based in Hyderabad.

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: high standards on design review, code quality, testing, and on-call discipline
• Grow senior engineers into technical leaders and create clear paths for those who don't 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 the 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 trade-offs about what not to build
• Drive cross-team execution with cloud, firmware, data, and QA groups across multiple time zones
• Represent the area in escalations and in front of ISP customers; understand their problems and get them surgically solved

What you’ll bring

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years directly managing or formally leading engineering teams
• 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, with 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 operating 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 their operational reality
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Telecommunications, or equivalent practical experience

Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Telecommunications or equivalent practical experience