Lead Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineers at Extreme work directly with strategic customers to design, build, validate, and deploy solutions using Extreme's products and platforms. This senior role involves leading technical direction across complex engagements, solving problems in intelligent networking, agentic AI, automation, and cloud platforms, while mentoring engineers and identifying platform gaps.

Bachelor's in CS or related, 15+ years software development experience, proficiency in Python/Java/Go/TypeScript/C#/C++, experience architecting production systems, ability to solve ambiguous problems, customer orientation, communication skills, ability to travel. Preferred: MS/PhD, experience in generative AI, agentic systems, MCP, networking, cloud-native, enterprise integrations.