Head of AI Platform & Cloud Engineering

Extremenetworks; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Extreme Networks, Inc. is seeking a senior engineering leader to shape the next generation of AI-driven networking experiences. You will drive the development of an AI agent platform, orchestrate tool ecosystems, and define the technical direction across multiple teams.

Join a global leader prioritizing performance, security, and scalability, with opportunities to influence enterprise-grade runtimes and governance in a fast-evolving field.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 15+ years software engineering experience, including 10+ years engineering leadership and 5+ years managing managers or multiple teams.
• Proven track record designing, delivering, and operating complex AI, ML, automation, or intelligent software platforms.
• Strong practical understanding of generative AI and agentic architectures (LLM integration, RAG, orchestration, guardrails).
• Experience with cloud-native AI services, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and production operations.
• Experience partnering with Product and Program Management to define strategy and deliver customer-facing platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide visionary technical and organizational leadership for teams building AI agent platforms and cloud-native services.
• Define and drive the engineering roadmap for scalable, secure, reliable systems enabling AI agents, tools, skills, integrations, and workflows.
• Build, mentor, and lead high-performing teams and foster a culture of engineering excellence and accountability.
• Drive execution across programs with clear priorities, predictable delivery, and risk management.
• Guide architectural decisions on distributed systems, multi-agent workflows, latency, cost, and platform extensibility.
• Champion production readiness, observability, and security by design, with SLOs and capacity planning.
• Stay current with AI trends, agent frameworks, and enterprise governance.

Skills

Engineering leadership

AI platforms

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Strategic collaboration

Education

MS/PhD in CS/AI/Distributed Systems

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL

Vector databases

Graph databases

Job description

Extreme Networks, Inc. is seeking a senior engineering leader to shape the next generation of AI-driven networking experiences. You will drive the development of an AI agent platform, orchestrate tool ecosystems, and define the technical direction across multiple teams.

Join a global leader prioritizing performance, security, and scalability, with opportunities to influence enterprise-grade runtimes and governance in a fast-evolving field.