Lead Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (10566)
Extreme Networks2 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape cross-engagement technical strategy, architecture, engineering practices, reference architectures, and technical standards for the Forward Deployed Engineering organization.
- Lead architecture and engineering decisions for complex customer solutions involving applications, AI systems, data, APIs, integrations, networking, security, infrastructure, and production operations.
- Write production-quality software and solve novel or high-risk engineering problems while owning customer solutions from discovery through production readiness.
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex engineering and production-readiness challenges across customer engagements.
- Create reusable architectures, components, integrations, tools, skills, automation, and other capabilities from recurring customer patterns.
- Identify platform gaps and define feature requirements with Product teams to incorporate recurring customer needs into Extreme's products and platforms.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical and engineering bar across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15+ years of software development lifecycle experience covering architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations.
- Extensive hands-on software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, or C++.
- Extensive experience architecting and delivering complex production systems across AI, automation, data, networking, enterprise integrations, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
- Ability to solve highly ambiguous cross-system technical problems and provide technical direction across multiple systems, teams, or significant engineering initiatives.
- Experience working directly with customer technical teams in complex enterprise environments and strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to travel to customer sites as required by the engagement.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's or PhD in a related discipline; production generative AI or agentic systems experience; Model Context Protocol and modern agent framework experience; networking, telemetry, observability, or distributed control systems experience; cloud-native infrastructure, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, enterprise deployment patterns, identity, authorization, security, data integration, or prior Forward Deployed Engineering experience.
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid position based in Seattle, Washington.
- Travel to customer sites is required as dictated by engagements.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks builds enterprise networking infrastructure—switches, routers, Wi‑Fi access points—and cloud-based management and analytics software used to deploy and secure wired and wireless networks. It sells hardware, software subscriptions, and support services to businesses, schools, hospitals, and governments. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, the company is publicly traded on NASDAQ (EXTR) and offers products in areas such as switching, wireless, security, and network management.