Staff Data Platform Engineer - Real-Time Analytics

101 Extreme Networks, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Extreme Networks in San Jose, CA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead performance monitoring for our Enterprise Platform ONE (EP1). This role focuses on building and scaling the data pipeline that ingests, enriches, and persistently stores platform telemetry at high volume, while upholding strong security engineering practices.

The successful candidate will own ingestion and storage architecture, drive performance improvements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a

Responsibilities

• Data Platform Engineering: design and build real-time data ingestion pipelines using Kafka and Numaflow to process high-volume platform telemetry and monitoring events.
• Architect enrichment pipelines that transform raw event data into contextualized, actionable performance signals.
• Own the persistent storage strategy across ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, and Elasticsearch, matching each data store to the right access pattern, and optimize queries, indexing, and partitioning to meet latency and throughput targets at scale.
• Design data retention, rollup, and partitioning strategies that balance query performance with storage cost.
• Tune the EP1 performance monitoring platform to handle growing data volume and query concurrency.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks across the full pipeline, from Kafka consumer lag to storage-layer query plans.
• Design for horizontal scalability, including partitioning, sharding, and load distribution across data stores.
• Establish capacity planning and load-testing practices for the platform's data infrastructure.
• Build, Deployment & Collaboration Support pre-deployment verification, including performance regression testing and security checks.
• Collaborate with QA to validate data pipeline correctness and system resilience under load.
• Apply secure coding practices and participate in code reviews with a security lens.
• Maintain documentation of system architecture, data flows, and operational runbooks.
• Partner with engineering, data, and platform teams on design reviews and technical decisions.

Job description

Extreme Networks in San Jose, CA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead performance monitoring for our Enterprise Platform ONE (EP1). This role focuses on building and scaling the data pipeline that ingests, enriches, and persistently stores platform telemetry at high volume, while upholding strong security engineering practices.

The successful candidate will own ingestion and storage architecture, drive performance improvements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a