Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (10567)

Seattle · USD 160,000-200,000 / year · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 7, 2026

At a glance

As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be the technical lead for complex customer engagements, owning solutions from discovery and architecture through implementation, deployment, and production readiness.
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.
You will remain deeply hands-on while providing technical leadership to other engineers on the engagement, identifying reusable patterns and platform gaps that emerge from customer work.

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.
Write production-quality software and build agents, applications, APIs, integrations, data connectors, tools, skills, workflows, automation, and supporting services as required by the solution.
Integrate Extreme's products and platforms with customer data sources, identity systems, enterprise applications, APIs, infrastructure, and operational workflows.
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.
Diagnose and resolve complex problems across software, AI, data, integrations, networking, and infrastructure.
Lead technical design and code reviews and provide engineering guidance to engineers working on customer engagements.
Identify platform gaps and define new feature requirements, working with Product teams to incorporate recurring customer needs into Extreme's products and platforms.

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 building production solutions involving AI, automation, data, networking, enterprise integrations, cloud infrastructure, or comparable complex technology domains.
Strong systems, API, integration, debugging, and software architecture skills.
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.
Experience providing technical leadership through design reviews, architecture decisions, code reviews, or mentoring.
Experience working directly with customers, partners, or external technical teams.