Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Staff Software Engineer role sits at an intersection that matters in SaaS today: cloud-delivered platforms that also have to operate reliably across heterogeneous edge environments. Plume’s focus on an open, hardware-independent service delivery platform and its OpenSync open-source footprint makes the work relevant to SaaS businesses that win through ecosystem adoption, interoperability, and operational scale rather than purely application-layer features.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the position offers exposure to problems that translate across platform companies: designing software that must be supportable across many customer environments, building for observability and troubleshooting in production, and balancing product requirements with long-lived systems constraints. Experience contributing to an open-source, widely adopted framework can also sharpen skills in API/contract thinking, backwards compatibility, and integration patterns that recur in enterprise SaaS partnerships.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer deep technical ownership and systems-level problem solving, particularly where networking and Linux-based development are central. It will likely fit professionals who enjoy collaborating across stakeholders while still spending significant time in hands-on development and incident-style debugging. It also aligns with those interested in SaaS platforms where “cloud” success depends on dependable behavior on devices and networks outside the company’s direct control.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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 60 million locations globally and have managed over 3 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 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 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 are seeking talented individuals to join our OpenSync team. OpenSync is an open-source solution that aims to provide platform-agnostic and cloud-agnostic networking solutions. OpenSync has already become the most widely adopted SDN open-source solution, and we are looking for a candidate with the following skill sets and experience:
What You’ll Do
- Develop OpenSync networking solutions to meet customer requirements
- Contribute to the development of high-quality software products
- Collaborate with other developers and stakeholders to ensure that project goals are met
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to OpenSync
What You’ll Bring
- 10+ years of deep development experience in networking and wireless technology areas
- Experience in developing high-quality software products, with C, Linux Systems and Git
- Familiarity with modern embedded platforms such as ARM, MIPS, Intel PUMAx, and BRCM platforms would be a plus
- Experience with cross-platform development and build tools (GNU toolchain, OpenWrt, buildroot)
- Experience in commercial/opensource Wireless Access Controllers.
- Thorough understanding on L2, L3 & L4 Networking Layers and 802.11.
- Experience with Wi-Fi and/or Ethernet switching silicon (Broadcom/Qualcomm/MTK..etc.)
About Plume
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.
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.