Extreme Networks Inc.
Lead Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (10566)
Seattle, Washington, United States · Principal · Full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$26,086 more — $206,086 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $206,086 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- As a Lead Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be a senior technical leader within the FDE organization, setting technical direction across Extreme's most complex customer engagements and shaping the architectures, engineering practices, and reusable capabilities that enable FDE to operate effectively at scale.
- You will remain deeply hands-on, working directly with customer architects, principal engineers, engineering leaders, and technical teams on novel and difficult problems spanning intelligent networking, agentic AI, automation, enterprise integrations, data, distributed systems, and cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
- Beyond individual engagements, you will identify patterns across customer environments, recognize systemic platform gaps, and turn field learning into reference architectures, reusable capabilities, engineering standards, and improvements to Extreme's products and platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead critical architecture and engineering decisions for complex customer solutions spanning applications, AI systems, data, APIs, integrations, networking, security, infrastructure, and production operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations.
- Extensive hands-on software development experience with strong proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, or C++.
- Extensive experience architecting and delivering complex production systems across domains such as AI, automation, data, networking, enterprise integrations, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
- Demonstrated ability to solve highly ambiguous, cross-system technical problems where architecture or engineering approaches are not already established.
- Experience providing technical direction across multiple systems, teams, or significant engineering initiatives.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical decisions, tradeoffs, and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to travel to customer sites as required by the engagement
Nice to have
- Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and modern agent frameworks.
- Experience with networking, network management, telemetry, observability, or distributed control systems.
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and enterprise deployment patterns.
- Experience with enterprise identity, authorization, security, and data integration.
- Prior experience in Forward Deployed Engineering or another deeply technical customer-facing software engineering role.
- Extreme Networks, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- 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.
Skills
- Position details
Compensation
- 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.
Company info
- Over 50,000 customers globally trust our end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions.
- Become part of something big with Extreme!
- Work authorization: We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa, including H-1B visas, at this time Scope: Are you energized by solving complex, high-impact problems directly with customers?
Equal opportunity
- 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
Visa & Work Authorization
- We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa, including H-1B visas, at this time
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