Sr System Engineer - Customer Facing
About the role
Please note that this is a hybrid position, requiring 3 days a week of work in our customer's Toronto office. We’re looking for candidates who are within a commutable distance. Currently, we are unable to offer relocation assistance.
Overview
This is a technical role, providing support to Plume’s Enterprise customers and their technical teams. You will be solving challenging problems daily using cutting-edge technologies and advanced architectural patterns involving distributed systems, reactive streaming, and stateful services. You’ll deliver end-to-end solutions involving CPEs with OpenSync embedded into Plume’s cloud platform and beyond.
This is a high-impact, customer-facing role with strong growth potential and will put your software engineering skills to the test. The role also spans project/account management, feature design, implementation coordination, and process definition. You’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining deep expertise in customers’ systems and processes as they relate to the Plume platform.
As a Sr System Engineer - Customer Facing, you will serve as the primary technical point of contact—triaging issues, helping define new feature requirements, coordinating cross-functional teams, and representing key platform components such as Pods, Gateway Devices, APIs, data, roadmaps, and firmware integrations. Your goal: ensure successful deployment, support, and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Service Providers, Enterprise customers, and their technical teams to understand technical issues and coordinate resolution within Plume.
- Provide both strategic and day-to-day technical expertise and support for assigned accounts.
- Participate in all stages of the software design lifecycle working in multi-disciplinary teams spanning cloud, embedded devices, front-end web/mobile, data, and product.
- Write clean, maintainable code, and perform peer code reviews.
- Solve complex scale, integration, and architectural problems.
- Act as the technical liaison between Plume and third-party vendors such as ODMs, chipset vendors, and software partners.
- Identify Platform API product enhancement opportunities based on support trends.
- Provide post-sales technical support and guidance for Platform API users.
- Respond to setup-related and how-to questions from Platform API users.
- Lead diagnosis, troubleshooting, and in-depth testing of difficult-to-reproduce issues.
- Facilitate cross-functional customer experience review sessions with Product and Engineering.
- Offer clear, actionable recommendations for product improvements and help prioritize them.
- Collaborate on defining requirements and driving the development and deployment of new features.
- Help create processes and documentation for the TAM team
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert for the Plume platform.
Qualifications
- Education Requirements: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
- Equivalent practical experience is also considered.
Experience
- Strong experience in a client-facing technical role with an emphasis on high-quality documentation.
- Experience working on cloud applications and supporting REST APIs.
- Passion for solving problems and advocating for customer success in a dynamic, technical environment.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Excellent customer service and communication skills in variety of forms (written, conference calls, in-person)
- Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Excellent analytical and organizational abilities
Required Skills
- Effective team player with strong verbal and written technical communication.
- Hands-on experience managing projects involving Gateway and CPE devices.
- Skilled in triaging issues and managing communication across multi-vendor technical and product teams.
- In-depth understanding of cloud computing architecture including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS delivery models.
- Proficient in network management and troubleshooting tools such as Serial, SSH, Telnet, Wireshark, tcpdump, NAT, Firewall, IPSec, and IPtables.
- Knowledgeable in LAN/WAN technologies, including switching and routing.
- Understanding of cloud technology components such as virtualization, networking, applications, and APIs.
- Good understanding of wireless technologies like 802.11a/b/c/g/n/ac/ax.
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, Slack for managing technical projects.
- High proficiency in writing idiomatic code in C/C++, Java, or Scala.
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented programming, and embedded systems.
- Experience with WiFi access points, OpenWRT, RDK, or OpenSync platforms is a plus.
Preferred Certifications
- CCNA/CCNP, CWNA/CWSP or similar
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- PMP (Project Management Professional)
- ITIL Foundation or higher
Please note that this is a hybrid position, requiring 3 days a week of work in our customer's Toronto office. We’re looking for candidates who are within a commutable distance. Currently, we are unable to offer relocation assistance.
About Plume Design, Inc
The world’s first SaaS experience platform for Communications Service Providers.
At Plume, we believe that technology isn't about moving faster. It's about making moments better. Which is why we've brought relentless focus to understanding the digital lifestyles people want to live, the spaces where they play out, and innovating ways to make digital experiences blossom. As the only open and hardware-independent solution, Plume enables the rapid delivery of new services for connected homes, MDUs, small business, and beyond at massive scale. For residential subscribers, Plume delivers self-optimizing WiFi, cyber-security, access controls, and more. Our purpose-built suite of smart services turns small business networks into fully connected, business intelligence platforms. And Service Providers get robust back-end applications for unprecedented visibility and support.
Our goal is simple: to keep you in the flow with any experiences you turn on. And to help you fill the spaces that matter to you with all kinds of wonderful.
With a bias for action and love for breaking molds, the team at Plume embodies a combination of relentless curiosity and imaginative innovation. We constantly challenge ourselves to think in ways that other companies don't, and work to do what should be done (rather than what can). It’s how we've assembled a team of world-class engineers, thinkers, and doers. And it’s how we’re reinventing what’s possible every day.
We believe that the core competitive advantage in the over-the-top era resides in the ability to create new services at high cadence, deploy them at massive scale, and to orchestrate through a common data set. Our flexible, cloud-controlled platform paired with an open-source software stack decouples service creation and delivery from dependence on proprietary hardware.
Sr System Engineer - Customer Facing
About the role
Please note that this is a hybrid position, requiring 3 days a week of work in our customer's Toronto office. We’re looking for candidates who are within a commutable distance. Currently, we are unable to offer relocation assistance.
Overview
This is a technical role, providing support to Plume’s Enterprise customers and their technical teams. You will be solving challenging problems daily using cutting-edge technologies and advanced architectural patterns involving distributed systems, reactive streaming, and stateful services. You’ll deliver end-to-end solutions involving CPEs with OpenSync embedded into Plume’s cloud platform and beyond.
This is a high-impact, customer-facing role with strong growth potential and will put your software engineering skills to the test. The role also spans project/account management, feature design, implementation coordination, and process definition. You’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining deep expertise in customers’ systems and processes as they relate to the Plume platform.
As a Sr System Engineer - Customer Facing, you will serve as the primary technical point of contact—triaging issues, helping define new feature requirements, coordinating cross-functional teams, and representing key platform components such as Pods, Gateway Devices, APIs, data, roadmaps, and firmware integrations. Your goal: ensure successful deployment, support, and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Service Providers, Enterprise customers, and their technical teams to understand technical issues and coordinate resolution within Plume.
- Provide both strategic and day-to-day technical expertise and support for assigned accounts.
- Participate in all stages of the software design lifecycle working in multi-disciplinary teams spanning cloud, embedded devices, front-end web/mobile, data, and product.
- Write clean, maintainable code, and perform peer code reviews.
- Solve complex scale, integration, and architectural problems.
- Act as the technical liaison between Plume and third-party vendors such as ODMs, chipset vendors, and software partners.
- Identify Platform API product enhancement opportunities based on support trends.
- Provide post-sales technical support and guidance for Platform API users.
- Respond to setup-related and how-to questions from Platform API users.
- Lead diagnosis, troubleshooting, and in-depth testing of difficult-to-reproduce issues.
- Facilitate cross-functional customer experience review sessions with Product and Engineering.
- Offer clear, actionable recommendations for product improvements and help prioritize them.
- Collaborate on defining requirements and driving the development and deployment of new features.
- Help create processes and documentation for the TAM team
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert for the Plume platform.
Qualifications
- Education Requirements: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
- Equivalent practical experience is also considered.
Experience
- Strong experience in a client-facing technical role with an emphasis on high-quality documentation.
- Experience working on cloud applications and supporting REST APIs.
- Passion for solving problems and advocating for customer success in a dynamic, technical environment.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Excellent customer service and communication skills in variety of forms (written, conference calls, in-person)
- Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Excellent analytical and organizational abilities
Required Skills
- Effective team player with strong verbal and written technical communication.
- Hands-on experience managing projects involving Gateway and CPE devices.
- Skilled in triaging issues and managing communication across multi-vendor technical and product teams.
- In-depth understanding of cloud computing architecture including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS delivery models.
- Proficient in network management and troubleshooting tools such as Serial, SSH, Telnet, Wireshark, tcpdump, NAT, Firewall, IPSec, and IPtables.
- Knowledgeable in LAN/WAN technologies, including switching and routing.
- Understanding of cloud technology components such as virtualization, networking, applications, and APIs.
- Good understanding of wireless technologies like 802.11a/b/c/g/n/ac/ax.
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, Slack for managing technical projects.
- High proficiency in writing idiomatic code in C/C++, Java, or Scala.
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented programming, and embedded systems.
- Experience with WiFi access points, OpenWRT, RDK, or OpenSync platforms is a plus.
Preferred Certifications
- CCNA/CCNP, CWNA/CWSP or similar
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- PMP (Project Management Professional)
- ITIL Foundation or higher
Please note that this is a hybrid position, requiring 3 days a week of work in our customer's Toronto office. We’re looking for candidates who are within a commutable distance. Currently, we are unable to offer relocation assistance.
About Plume Design, Inc
The world’s first SaaS experience platform for Communications Service Providers.
At Plume, we believe that technology isn't about moving faster. It's about making moments better. Which is why we've brought relentless focus to understanding the digital lifestyles people want to live, the spaces where they play out, and innovating ways to make digital experiences blossom. As the only open and hardware-independent solution, Plume enables the rapid delivery of new services for connected homes, MDUs, small business, and beyond at massive scale. For residential subscribers, Plume delivers self-optimizing WiFi, cyber-security, access controls, and more. Our purpose-built suite of smart services turns small business networks into fully connected, business intelligence platforms. And Service Providers get robust back-end applications for unprecedented visibility and support.
Our goal is simple: to keep you in the flow with any experiences you turn on. And to help you fill the spaces that matter to you with all kinds of wonderful.
With a bias for action and love for breaking molds, the team at Plume embodies a combination of relentless curiosity and imaginative innovation. We constantly challenge ourselves to think in ways that other companies don't, and work to do what should be done (rather than what can). It’s how we've assembled a team of world-class engineers, thinkers, and doers. And it’s how we’re reinventing what’s possible every day.
We believe that the core competitive advantage in the over-the-top era resides in the ability to create new services at high cadence, deploy them at massive scale, and to orchestrate through a common data set. Our flexible, cloud-controlled platform paired with an open-source software stack decouples service creation and delivery from dependence on proprietary hardware.