Staff Software Engineer: AI-Driven Networking (Remote)

Extreme Networks; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible work schedules

401K matching in the United States

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Extreme Networks in Seattle, WA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help lead the development of core platforms and services that process large volumes of network and operational data and power AI experiences across Extreme.

You will design scalable, secure real-time distributed systems on cloud platforms, mentor engineers, and contribute to agentic automation and observability, with a market-competitive compensation package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience across the complete software development lifecycle, including architecture, design, coding, code reviews, testing, build processes, deployment, and production operations.
• 8+ years of programming experience in at least one general-purpose language (Python, Java, Go, or C++).
• 5+ years of experience leading design and architecture of large-scale distributed systems on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud).
• Experience in real-time microservices, stream processing, distributed data platforms, cloud infrastructure, AI/agentic systems, or large-scale analytics.
• Strong ability to design scalable, highly available systems with low latency and reliability.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of core platforms and services processing large volumes of data and powering AI experiences.
• Design scalable, secure, observable, real-time distributed systems for enterprise use cases.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to architectural decisions across distributed teams.
• Collaborate on cloud-native platforms and agentic automation initiatives.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

C++

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

AWS/Azure/GCP

Real-time microservices

AI / agentic systems

Mentoring / leadership

CI/CD / production ops

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Flink

PySpark

MapReduce

Job description

Extreme Networks in Seattle, WA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help lead the development of core platforms and services that process large volumes of network and operational data and power AI experiences across Extreme.

You will design scalable, secure real-time distributed systems on cloud platforms, mentor engineers, and contribute to agentic automation and observability, with a market-competitive compensation package.