Extreme Networks Inc.
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (10567)
Seattle, Washington, United States · Staff+ · 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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$14,595 more — $174,595 — moves this role to Level III and 3 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 $174,595 would place this position at wage Level III. 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
- You will work side by side with customer engineering teams to understand their environment, data, systems, workflows, and technical constraints and turn complex or ambiguous problems into production solutions.
- Depending on the engagement, these solutions may include agents, applications, integrations, data connectors, APIs, tools, skills, workflows, automation, and supporting infrastructure.
- You will remain deeply hands-on while providing technical leadership to other engineers on the engagement.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery with customer engineering teams to understand workflows, systems, data, technical constraints, and desired outcomes.
- Own the architecture and technical delivery of complex customer solutions from solution design through production readiness.
- Make architecture and design decisions across applications, AI, data, integrations, security, infrastructure, deployment, and operations.
- Design and implement appropriate testing, evaluations, guardrails, security controls, deployment automation, observability, and operational mechanisms.
- Build solutions that meet production requirements for reliability, scalability, security, performance, maintainability, and cost.
- Lead technical design and code reviews and provide engineering guidance to engineers working on customer engagements.
- Drive solutions through deployment and stabilization, ensuring agreed production-readiness criteria are met.
- Experience building production solutions involving AI, automation, data, networking, enterprise integrations, cloud infrastructure, or comparable complex technology domains.
- Experience providing technical leadership through design reviews, architecture decisions, code reviews, or mentoring.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations.
- Strong hands-on software development experience with proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, or C++.
- Significant experience designing and delivering distributed, cloud-based, or enterprise software systems.
- Experience taking complex technical solutions from initial requirements and architecture through production deployment.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and translate complex problems into pragmatic engineering solutions.
- 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 systems.
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD.
- Experience integrating enterprise identity systems, data platforms, APIs, and operational systems.
- Experience with distributed data platforms, streaming systems, or real-time processing.
- Prior experience in Forward Deployed Engineering or another deeply technical customer-facing software engineering role.
- Equal Employment Opportunity
- Extreme Networks, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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?
- You will also identify reusable patterns and platform gaps that emerge from customer work and help turn those learnings into capabilities that can benefit customers beyond a single engagement.
- Experience working directly with customers, partners, or external technical teams.
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 Scope: Are you energized by solving complex, high-impact problems directly with customers?
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