Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (10567)

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Position details
Title of position:  Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
Position type: Full time - Hybrid
Location:  Seattle, WA
Position reports to: Director of Software Systems Engineering
Application deadline: Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis and this posting will remain open until filled.
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? 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?
Then come advance with us.
About the Position
Forward 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.
FDEs 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.
This 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.
About the Role
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. 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. 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.