Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Extreme Networks

. Lead technical discovery with customer engineering teams to understand workflows, systems, data, technical constraints, and desired outcomes .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeSeattle • Washington • United StatesLead💰 $110,000 - $120,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudJavaPythonTypeScriptC++Go

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead technical discovery with customer engineering teams to understand workflows, systems, data, technical constraints, and desired outcomes
Own architecture and technical delivery of complex customer solutions from solution design through production readiness
Write production-quality software and build agents, applications, APIs, integrations, data connectors, tools, skills, workflows, automation, and supporting services
Integrate Extreme's products and platforms with customer data sources, identity systems, enterprise applications, APIs, infrastructure, and operational workflows
Make architecture and design decisions across applications, AI, data, integrations, security, infrastructure, deployment, and operations
Design and implement testing, evaluations, guardrails, security controls, deployment automation, observability, and operational mechanisms
Build reliable, scalable, secure, performant, maintainable, and cost-effective production solutions
Diagnose and resolve complex problems across software, AI, data, integrations, networking, and infrastructure
Lead technical design and code reviews and provide engineering guidance to other engineers
Drive solutions through deployment and stabilization and ensure production-readiness criteria are met
Create technical documentation, architecture guidance, operational runbooks, and other maintenance artifacts
Identify reusable architectures, components, integrations, tools, skills, automation, and engineering patterns
Identify platform gaps and define new feature requirements with Product teams
Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards and practices across the FDE organization

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
8+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations
Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, or C++
Significant experience designing and delivering distributed, cloud-based, or enterprise software systems
Experience building production solutions involving AI, automation, data, networking, enterprise integrations, cloud infrastructure, or comparable complex technology domains
Strong systems, API, integration, debugging, and software architecture skills
Experience taking complex technical solutions from initial requirements and architecture through production deployment
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and translate complex problems into pragmatic engineering solutions
Experience providing technical leadership through design reviews, architecture decisions, code reviews, or mentoring
Experience working directly with customers, partners, or external technical teams
Strong written and verbal technical communication skills
Ability to travel to customer sites as required by the engagement
Work authorization in the United States; the employer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa, including H-1B visas, at this time

Benefits

Comp & perks

Salary range of $110,000–$120,000 per year
Hybrid work arrangement
Opportunity to work with emerging technologies in intelligent networking, generative AI, agentic systems, automation, and cloud platforms
Mentorship and contribution to engineering standards and practices
Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action protections
Fair-chance hiring consideration consistent with applicable laws