Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Job overview

The Staff Forward Deployed Engineer role is hybrid in Seattle, WA. Pay is $160,000–$200,000 per year. Extreme Networks provides cloud-driven networking solutions to customers worldwide. The engineer leads complex customer engagements from discovery and architecture through implementation, deployment, and production readiness. The role combines hands-on software development and technical leadership, while translating customer needs into reliable solutions and reusable platform capabilities.

What you'll do

• Lead technical discovery and solution architecture
• build production software, agents, applications, APIs, integrations, connectors, workflows, and automation
• integrate Extreme products with customer systems
• make design decisions across software, AI, data, security, infrastructure, and operations
• implement testing, guardrails, security controls, deployment automation, and observability
• troubleshoot complex issues
• lead design and code reviews
• drive deployment and stabilization
• document solutions
• identify reusable patterns and platform gaps
• mentor engineers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff forward deployed engineer

seattle wa

extreme networks

full-time position

hybrid

customer-facing engineering

software architecture

production software

enterprise integrations

generative ai

cloud platforms

networking

customer-site travel as required

$160k–$200k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Eight or more years of software lifecycle experience required; customer-site travel may be required by engagement. The employer states it cannot sponsor or take over employment visa sponsorship.

About the employer

Extreme Networks is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.