Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer | Hybrid (Seattle)

Lever, Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Extreme Networks, Inc. is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex customer engagements, owning solutions from discovery through production readiness.

You will work directly with customer engineering teams to understand environments, data, and constraints and turn complex problems into production solutions using Extreme's products and platforms. The role is deeply technical, hands-on, and demands leadership, architecture decisions, and delivery across AI, automation, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE/Math or related field.
• 8+ years of software development experience across lifecycle.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, or C++.
• Experience delivering distributed, cloud-based software systems.
• Experience building production AI, automation, or integration solutions.
• Strong systems, API, debugging, and architectural skills.
• Ability to travel to customer sites as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery with customer engineering teams to understand workflows, data, technical constraints, and desired outcomes.
• Own the architecture and technical delivery of complex customer solutions from design through production readiness.
• Write production-quality software and build agents, applications, APIs, integrations, data connectors, tools, and automation as required by the solution.
• Integrate Extreme's products 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, guardrails, security controls, deployment automation, observability, and operational mechanisms.
• Build solutions that meet production requirements for reliability, scalability, security, performance, maintainability, and cost.
• Diagnose and resolve complex problems across software, AI, data, integrations, networking, and infrastructure.
• Lead technical design and code reviews and provide engineering guidance to engineers on the engagement.
• Drive solutions through deployment and stabilization, ensuring production-readiness criteria are met.
• Create technical documentation, architecture guidance, runbooks, and artifacts to operate delivered solutions.
• Identify reusable architectures and patterns to accelerate future deployments.
• Identify platform gaps and define new feature requirements with Product teams.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

TypeScript

C#

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical discipline

Job description

Extreme Networks, Inc. is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex customer engagements, owning solutions from discovery through production readiness.

You will work directly with customer engineering teams to understand environments, data, and constraints and turn complex problems into production solutions using Extreme's products and platforms. The role is deeply technical, hands-on, and demands leadership, architecture decisions, and delivery across AI, automation, and