Principal Software Engineer (10378, 10382, 10385)
Extreme Networks2 months ago
Seattle, WA, USA or San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$220k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead development of core platforms and services spanning intelligent networking, agentic AI, distributed data processing, real-time analytics, and intelligent automation.
- Architect and build scalable, secure, reliable, observable, adaptable, and safe enterprise systems.
- Develop systems that process large volumes of real-time network and operational data and produce actionable insights or automated outcomes.
- Design and implement high-performance, event-driven distributed systems and cloud-native services.
- Build generative AI and agentic capabilities supporting tool use, planning, memory, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, and production deployment.
- Contribute across architecture, design, coding, code reviews, testing, build processes, deployment, and production operations.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership for complex initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of experience across the complete software development lifecycle.
- At least 8 years of programming experience in a general-purpose language, preferably Python, Java, Go, or C++.
- At least 5 years of experience leading the design and architecture of large-scale distributed systems on cloud platforms such as 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 systems that process high-volume, high-velocity data 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 deliver pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
- Master’s or PhD in a related technical discipline is preferred, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience includes generative AI or agentic systems, networking, network management, observability, telemetry, cloud infrastructure, distributed control-plane systems, and large-scale real-world datasets.
- Preferred experience with Kafka, Spark, Flink, PySpark, MapReduce, or comparable distributed data and processing technologies.
Benefits
- Full-time position with benefits.
- Located in Seattle, WA or San Jose, CA.
- Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
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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.