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They rely on our top-rated services and support to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and deliver unprecedented progress.\nBecome part of something big with Extreme! As a global networking leader, learn why there is no better time to join the Extreme team.\nPosition details\nTitle of position: Senior Forward Deployed Engineer\nPosition type: Full time - Hybrid\nLocation: Seattle, WA\nPosition reports to: Director of Software Systems Engineering\nApplication deadline: Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis and this posting will remain open until filled.\nWork authorization: We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa, including H-1B visas, at this time\nScope\nAre you energized by solving complex, high-impact problems directly with customers? Do you want to turn emerging technologies in intelligent networking, generative AI, agentic systems, automation, and cloud platforms into production solutions? Do you want what you build and learn in the field to help shape capabilities that benefit customers at scale?\nThen come advance with us.\nAbout the Position\nForward Deployed Engineers at Extreme are software engineers who work directly with strategic customers to jointly design, build, validate, and deploy solutions to complex business and technical problems using Extreme's products and platforms.\nFDEs operate in real customer environments and own technical outcomes from discovery and solution design through implementation, deployment, and production readiness. The solutions they build must meet demanding requirements for scalability, security, reliability, observability, and operational safety.\nThis is a deeply technical and hands-on engineering organization. FDEs work directly with customers to understand complex problems and design, build, deploy, and stabilize production solutions using Extreme's products and platforms. They write production software, solve complex systems and integration problems, and own technical outcomes from solution design through production readiness. FDEs also identify platform gaps and define new feature requirements, working with Product teams to incorporate recurring customer needs into Extreme's products and platforms.\nAbout the Role\nAs a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work directly with customer technical teams to design, build, deploy, and stabilize production solutions using Extreme's products and platforms.\nYou will take ownership of significant engineering workstreams and, depending on the engagement, complete customer solutions. You will work across application development, agentic AI, integrations, data, APIs, automation, networking, and cloud infrastructure to solve problems in real customer environments.\nYou will write production software, troubleshoot complex systems, and work through ambiguity without requiring a fully defined technical specification. You will also help identify reusable engineering patterns and platform gaps based on what you learn while delivering customer solutions.\nKey Responsibilities:\nWork directly with customer technical teams to understand their workflows, systems, data, technical constraints, and desired outcomes.\nCollaborate with customers and other FDEs to design and deliver production solutions using Extreme's products and platforms.\nOwn significant technical components or workstreams from design and implementation through deployment and production readiness.\nWrite production-quality software, including applications, agents, APIs, integrations, data connectors, tools, skills, workflows, and automation as required by the solution.\nIntegrate Extreme's products and platforms with customer systems, data sources, APIs, identity systems, infrastructure, and operational workflows.\nBuild and maintain automated tests, AI evaluations where appropriate, deployment automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.\nImplement logging, monitoring, tracing, and other observability required to operate solutions reliably in production.\nDiagnose and resolve complex issues across software, data, integrations, networking, infrastructure, and AI components.\nParticipate in architecture, design, and code reviews and contribute to sound technical decisions across the engagement.\nSupport production deployment and stabilization and ensure delivered components meet agreed production-readiness requirements.\nCreate clear technical documentation, deployment guidance, and operational runbooks.\nIdentify reusable components, integrations, tools, skills, automation, and engineering patterns that can accelerate future customer deployments.\nIdentify platform gaps and define new feature requirements, working with Product teams to incorporate recurring customer needs into Extreme's products and platforms.\nContribute to engineering standards, technical practices, and knowledge sharing across the FDE organization.\n\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n5+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations.\nStrong hands-on software development experience with proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, or C++.\nExperience building and operating distributed, cloud-based, or enterprise software systems.\nExperience with APIs, integrations, data, containers, and modern software deployment practices.\nExperience debugging complex software or systems issues and delivering production-quality solutions.\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively through ambiguous technical problems and drive engineering work to completion.\nExperience collaborating directly with customers, partners, or external technical teams.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\nAbility to travel to customer sites as required by the engagement.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nMaster's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related discipline.\nExperience building LLM-based or agentic systems involving tool use, retrieval, orchestration, context management, evaluation, or production deployment.\nFamiliarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and modern agent frameworks.\nExperience with networking, network management, telemetry, observability, or distributed systems.\nExperience with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD.\nExperience integrating enterprise APIs, data platforms, identity systems, and operational applications.\nExperience with distributed data platforms, streaming systems, or real-time processing.\nPrior experience in Forward Deployed Engineering or another technical customer-facing software engineering role.\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nExtreme 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.\nExtreme 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.\nFair chance and background checks\nExtreme 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. 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