AI Principal SW Systems Engineer -AI Infra -Distributed Systems,Microservice, AI Infrastructure,Agentic systems -10358
Extreme Networks2 months ago
Chennai, India or Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive technical vision for intelligent networking, distributed systems, real-time data processing, agentic AI, and machine learning capabilities.
- Lead the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations.
- Design and build scalable, high-performance services, data pipelines, distributed microservices, agentic solutions, and networking integrations.
- Lead technical discussions and strategy while contributing hands-on to design reviews, code reviews, and implementation.
- Mentor engineers, establish technical direction, and foster engineering excellence and innovation.
- Improve architecture, system performance, operational readiness, resilience, security, observability, and scalability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of software development lifecycle experience spanning architecture, design, coding, reviews, testing, build processes, deployment, and production operations.
- 10+ years of programming experience with proficiency in at least one general-purpose language, preferably Python, Java, Go, or C++.
- 3+ 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 systems processing high-volume, high-velocity data with stringent scalability, availability, latency, and reliability requirements.
- Experience mentoring engineers, serving as a technical lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Ability to solve complex, ambiguous technical problems and develop pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
- Preferred: Master’s or PhD in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: Experience with generative AI or agentic systems, including tool use, planning, memory, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, and production deployment.
- Preferred: Experience with 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 technologies.
Benefits
- The position is located in Bangalore or may be performed remotely.
- The role supports work on intelligent networking, cloud-native platforms, real-time distributed systems, and agentic AI products with global impact.
- Extreme Networks promotes an inclusive workplace and encourages applications from underrepresented groups.
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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.