Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (10569)
Extreme Networks12 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customer technical teams to understand workflows, systems, data, constraints, and desired outcomes.
- Design and deliver production solutions using Extreme's products and platforms.
- Own technical workstreams from design and implementation through deployment and production readiness.
- Write production-quality applications, agents, APIs, integrations, data connectors, tools, skills, workflows, and automation.
- Integrate products and platforms with customer systems, data sources, APIs, identity systems, infrastructure, and operational workflows.
- Build automated tests, AI evaluations, deployment automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Implement logging, monitoring, tracing, and other production observability.
- Diagnose and resolve complex issues across software, data, integrations, networking, infrastructure, and AI components.
- Support architecture, design, and code reviews and contribute to technical decisions.
- Support production deployment and stabilization and create technical documentation, deployment guidance, and operational runbooks.
- Identify reusable engineering patterns and platform gaps and work with Product teams on new feature requirements.
- Provide technical leadership and contribute to engineering standards and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least five years of software development lifecycle experience covering design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations.
- Strong hands-on software development experience in one or more of Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, or C++.
- Experience building and operating distributed, cloud-based, or enterprise software systems.
- Experience with APIs, integrations, data, containers, modern software deployment practices, and complex systems debugging.
- Ability to work through ambiguous technical problems and drive engineering work to completion.
- Experience collaborating directly with customers, partners, or external technical teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to travel to customer sites as required.
- Preferred: master's degree in a related technical discipline.
- Preferred: experience with LLM-based or agentic systems, Model Context Protocol, modern agent frameworks, networking, network management, telemetry, observability, distributed systems, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, enterprise APIs, data platforms, identity systems, distributed data platforms, streaming systems, real-time processing, or Forward Deployed Engineering.
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid position based in Seattle, Washington.
- Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
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.