Staff Software Engineer (10376, 10377, 10386)
Extreme Networks2 months ago
Seattle, WA, USA or San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$190k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead development of core platforms and services spanning networking, agentic AI, distributed data processing, real-time analytics, and intelligent automation.
- Design and build scalable, secure, reliable, observable, adaptable, and safe systems for enterprise use cases.
- Develop systems that process large volumes of real-time network and operational data and derive actionable insights.
- Architect and implement event-driven microservices, distributed data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and intelligent agent capabilities.
- Own software development lifecycle activities including architecture, coding, code reviews, testing, builds, deployment, and production operations.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and guide solutions to complex and ambiguous problems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of complete software development lifecycle experience, including architecture, design, coding, reviews, testing, builds, deployment, and production operations.
- At least 8 years of programming experience with proficiency in a general-purpose language, preferably Python, Java, Go, or C++.
- At least 5 years leading the design and architecture of large-scale distributed systems, preferably on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience with real-time microservices, stream processing, distributed data platforms, cloud infrastructure, AI or agentic systems, network telemetry, or large-scale analytics.
- Experience designing high-volume, high-velocity data systems with stringent scalability, availability, latency, and operational reliability requirements.
- Experience mentoring engineers, serving as a technical lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Ability to solve complex, ambiguous technical problems and turn them into production-ready solutions.
- Preferred: master’s or PhD in a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: experience with scalable event-driven microservices, real-time operational or network data, networking, observability, telemetry, distributed control-plane systems, and large-scale datasets.
- Preferred: experience building generative AI or agentic systems involving tool use, planning, memory, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, and production deployment.
- Preferred: experience with Kafka, Spark, Flink, PySpark, MapReduce, or comparable technologies.
Benefits
- Full-time position in Seattle, WA or San Jose, CA.
- Benefits are included with the role.
- Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
- The employer cannot sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas.
Tech Stack
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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.