DIR OF SW SYSTEMS ENGINEERING -10378

Title of position: Director of SW Engineering -Exchange

Position type: Full time

Location: San Jose/Seattle, WA / San Jose, CA

Position reports to: Sr Director of SW Engineering

Application deadline: Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis and this posting will remain open until filled.

Work authorization: Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country where the role will be performed.

Are you energized by the idea of shaping the future of generative AI and agentic systems? Do you want to help define how intelligent agents discover capabilities, use tools, collaborate across systems, and deliver meaningful outcomes for customers? Do you aspire to create global impact while tackling challenges at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, cloud platforms, security, and large-scale product engineering?

Then come, advance with us.

This is an incredible opportunity to work at the forefront of AI-driven networking, agentic automation, cloud-native platforms, and intelligent product experiences. You will help lead the development of a next-generation platform that enables an ecosystem of AI agents, tools, skills, and integrations designed to support highly scalable, secure, reliable, and adaptable enterprise use cases.

There has never been a better time to join Extreme. Following several acquisitions that have expanded our portfolio and go-to-market strategy, we continue to see significant opportunity and growth across regions. As a Technology Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Extreme is also deeply committed to fostering a culture that embraces diversity, inclusion, and equality in the workplace. Our motto is “Advance with us,” and it applies to everyone we work with - inside and outside the company.

We are driving a fundamental shift in how businesses manage wired and wireless networks by building high-performance, real-time systems that can perceive, reason, retrieve context, use tools, and take intelligent action on behalf of users. You will lead engineering teams working on strategic AI platform capabilities, including agent orchestration, tool and skill ecosystems, secure integration frameworks, scalable microservices, and enterprise-grade runtime infrastructure. You will partner closely with product, architecture, security, cloud operations, and other engineering leaders to define the technical direction and deliver high-impact systems that are reliable, extensible, and built for long-term scale.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide visionary technical and organisational leadership for teams building next-generation AI agent platforms, tool ecosystems, and cloud-native services, including agent orchestration, tool invocation, skill discovery, workflow execution, context management, and governance.
• Define and drive the engineering roadmap for highly scalable, secure, reliable, and extensible systems that enable AI agents, tools, skills, integrations, and enterprise workflows across Extreme’s product portfolio.
• Build, mentor, and lead high-performing teams, including hiring, performance management, developing leaders, and fostering a culture of strong engineering standards, accountability, and innovation.
• Drive execution across multiple programs and teams, ensuring clear priorities, predictable delivery, effective risk management, and alignment with product, architecture, security, CloudOps, and senior leadership.
• Guide complex architectural and technical decisions, including trade-offs related to distributed systems, multi-agent workflows, latency, reliability, cost efficiency, tenant isolation, data privacy, and platform extensibility.
• Champion production readiness and operational excellence, including secure-by-design development, API consistency, observability, SLOs, capacity planning, resiliency, automation, and measurable quality outcomes.
• Stay current with emerging AI and platform trends, including agent frameworks, MCPbased tooling, skill ecosystems, RAG patterns, LLM integration, evaluation, guardrails, and enterprise AI governance.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 10+ years of engineering leadership experience and 5+ years managing managers or multiple engineering teams.
• Proven track record of designing, delivering, and operating complex, high-impact AI, ML, generative AI, automation, or intelligent software platforms.
• Strong practical understanding of generative AI and agentic architectures, including LLM integration, Model Context Protocol, RAG, agents, tools, skills, orchestration, context/memory, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and policy controls.
• Experience leading teams that build scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native AI or dataintensive services, with strong depth in distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and production operations.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs and engineering teams in an Agile or iterative product development environment.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with executives, product leaders, architects, senior engineers, security teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with agentic AI platforms, AI agent frameworks, tool-use systems, MCP-style integrations, plugin ecosystems, workflow automation, developer platforms, or skill marketplaces.
• Experience building or leading extensible platforms where multiple teams, services, or partners contribute capabilities through APIs, SDKs, plugins, tools, integrations, or developer-facing interfaces.
• Experience designing secure, governed platforms that support permissions, tenant isolation, auditability, rate limiting, policy controls, observability, and safe tool execution.
• Experience with cloud platforms and modern infrastructure technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL databases, search systems, vector databases, graph databases, or event streaming platforms.
• Experience partnering with Product Management and Program Management to define strategy, clarify requirements, manage trade-offs, and deliver customer-facing platform capabilities.

Come work with a team of highly talented engineers and scientists and help define the next

generation of AI-driven networking experiences. Advance with us to achieve new heights every

day.

Equal Employment Opportunity

• Extreme Networks, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We are committed to taking affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans, including disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active-duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans.
• Extreme Networks also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (for example, stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our organization. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Extreme Networks. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

Fair chance and background checks

• Extreme Networks will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Philadelphia Fair Criminal Record Screening Standards Ordinance, Illinois Human Rights Act, Cook County Human Rights Ordinance, Seattle Fair Chance Employment Ordinance, and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. An applicant's conviction history will not be considered until after a conditional offer of employment has been made. Following any individualized assessment, applicants will be provided with the opportunity to respond before any adverse action is taken.
• Extreme Networks does not seek salary history information from applicants and will not rely on salary history in determining whether to offer employment or in setting compensation.

This role offers a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range of 175,000 to 260,000 USD. Actual compensation will depend on the selected candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and work location. The posted range reflects the amount Extreme Networks reasonably and in good faith expects to pay upon hire. This range is determined using objective, gender-neutral criteria based on skills, experience, responsibility, and working conditions. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for a performance-based bonus and the full benefits package described below.

Benefits and total rewards:

Extreme Networks offers a comprehensive benefits package. Specific benefits vary by country and may include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible work schedules and work-from-home opportunities where role permits
• Paid time off, including open time off in eligible markets and statutory leave in all markets
• Paid holidays in accordance with local practice
• Retirement savings programs, including 401K matching in the United States
• Employee Stock Purchase Program, where eligible
• Adoption assistance and fertility treatment support, where eligible
• Flexible spending accounts, where eligible
• Employee assistance program
• Tuition reimbursement, where eligible
• Life and disability insurance

Benefits eligibility is based on country of employment, role, and employment status. Complete benefits details will be provided during the interview process and in the formal offer of employment.