Staff Software Engineer – Extreme Platform ONE (10548)
Extreme Networks7 hours ago
San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$170k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-throughput real-time data ingestion pipelines using Kafka and Numaflow.
- Architect data enrichment pipelines that convert raw telemetry into contextualized performance signals.
- Own storage strategy across ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, and Elasticsearch, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and partitioning.
- Design retention, rollup, sharding, load-distribution, and horizontal-scaling strategies.
- Tune the Extreme Platform ONE performance monitoring platform for increasing data volume and query concurrency.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks across streaming consumers and storage-layer query plans.
- Establish capacity planning, load-testing, and performance-benchmarking practices.
- Support pre-deployment performance regression testing and security checks.
- Collaborate with QA and engineering, data, and platform teams on correctness, resilience, architecture, and technical decisions.
- Maintain architecture documentation, data-flow documentation, and operational runbooks.
- Apply secure coding practices and participate in security-focused code reviews.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building and scaling data pipelines or observability platforms.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kafka or similar streaming platforms for high-throughput ingestion.
- Experience with Numaflow or similar stream-processing and dataflow frameworks.
- Deep expertise in ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, or other time-series or columnar databases, including schema design and query optimization.
- Experience with Elasticsearch for search and analytics at scale.
- Strong query optimization skills across SQL, time-series, and search-oriented data stores.
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, or similar.
- Understanding of container security, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build systems.
- Working knowledge of security scanning tools and vulnerability types including OWASP Top 10 and CWE.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Preferred experience with multi-tenant, high-cardinality time-series platforms, observability systems, stream-processing and enrichment pipelines, capacity planning, load testing, performance benchmarking, API security testing, and web application security.
- Security certifications such as CEH or Security+ are preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Full-time position located in Seattle, WA or San Jose, CA.
- Salary based on qualifications, experience, and region up to USD 170 k to 190K, plus benefits.
- Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
- Extreme Networks is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa, including H-1B visas, at this time.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaAWSAzureC#ClickHouseDockerElasticsearchGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGradleJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesMavennpmPythonSQLTerraform
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.