Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — AI & Cloud Solutions

Extreme Networks; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible work arrangements

Paid time off

Paid holidays

401K matching

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Tuition reimbursement

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Extreme Networks, a global networking leader, seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with strategic customers in Seattle. You will design, build, deploy, and stabilize production solutions using Extreme's products and platforms, owning significant workstreams and delivering production-ready outcomes.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in software development, strong cloud and API experience, and proven ability to collaborate with customers, architects, and product teams in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, including 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++.
• Experience building and operating distributed, cloud-based, or enterprise software systems.
• Experience with APIs, integrations, data, containers, and modern software deployment practices.
• Experience debugging complex software or systems issues and delivering production-quality solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively 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.
• Ability to travel to customer sites as required by the engagement.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customer technical teams to understand their workflows, systems, data, technical constraints, and desired outcomes.
• Collaborate with customers and other FDEs to design and deliver production solutions using Extreme's products and platforms.
• Own significant technical components or workstreams from design and implementation through deployment and production readiness.
• Write production-quality software, including applications, agents, APIs, integrations, data connectors, tools, skills, workflows, and automation as required by the solution.
• Integrate Extreme's products and platforms with customer systems, data sources, APIs, identity systems, infrastructure, and operational workflows.
• Build and maintain automated tests, AI evaluations where appropriate, deployment automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Implement logging, monitoring, tracing, and other observability required to operate solutions reliably in production.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues across software, data, integrations, networking, infrastructure, and AI components.
• Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews and contribute to sound technical decisions across the engagement.
• Support production deployment and stabilization and ensure delivered components meet agreed production-readiness requirements.
• Create clear technical documentation, deployment guidance, and operational runbooks.
• Identify reusable components, integrations, tools, skills, automation, and engineering patterns that can accelerate future customer deployments.
• Identify platform gaps and define new feature requirements, working with Product teams to incorporate recurring customer needs into Extreme's products and platforms.
• Contribute to engineering standards, technical practices, and knowledge sharing across the FDE organization.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

TypeScript

C#

C++

Distributed systems

APIs & integrations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Master's degree in CS/CE/EE or ML

Job description

Extreme Networks, a global networking leader, seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with strategic customers in Seattle. You will design, build, deploy, and stabilize production solutions using Extreme's products and platforms, owning significant workstreams and delivering production-ready outcomes.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in software development, strong cloud and API experience, and proven ability to collaborate with customers, architects, and product teams in a