> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Lead Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (10566) Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e9f2233e5d663d09 Extreme Networks posts a principal FDE role to build what the customer runs in Seattle, WA with no pay posted. Leads technical direction for complex, customer-facing deployments spanning intelligent networking, generative and agentic AI, automation, enterprise integrations, distributed systems, and cloud or on-premises infrastructure. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [Extreme Networks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/extreme-networks) Posted Oct 12, 2026 by Extreme Networks · open on Lever as of Nov 6, 2026 Pay not posted Seattle, WA Hybrid Full-time Leads technical direction for complex, customer-facing deployments spanning intelligent networking, generative and agentic AI, automation, enterprise integrations, distributed systems, and cloud or on-premises infrastructure. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fe9f2233e5d663d09&placement=top) - [View posting at Extreme Networks](https://jobs.lever.co/extremenetworks/4815cf4b-cc1f-4d72-b6bf-b17bd0b8fae3/apply) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Both - **Level**: Staff+ - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **15+ years** software development lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations Background - **Software engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** Visa - **No visa sponsorship** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 15+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a staff-level role. What level are you at now? The job is in Seattle, WA. Could you work there? The posting says no visa sponsorship. Do you need one? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: Seattle, WA - **Work arrangement**: Hybrid - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Visa sponsorship**: Not available - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated ## More like this [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5b9357990c31169e) East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 2w ago $168,100–$261,500 [Aerovy](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/aerovy) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (Founding)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5ed9b7623426bad3) Seattle, WA Hybrid 4w ago $150,000–$200,000 [Gradial](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/gradial) ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0c5715c904689d35) Seattle, WA 10d ago $155,000–$225,000 - [Other jobs at Extreme Networks (2)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/extreme-networks) ## The job description from Extreme Networks Posted by Extreme Networks on Oct 12, 2026 Over 50,000 customers globally trust our end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions. They rely on our top-rated services and support to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and deliver unprecedented progress. Become part of something big with Extreme! As a global networking leader, learn why there is no better time to join the Extreme team. ### Position details **Title of position: **Lead Senior Principal 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 Lead Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be a senior technical leader within the FDE organization, setting technical direction across Extreme's most complex customer engagements and shaping the architectures, engineering practices, and reusable capabilities that enable FDE to operate effectively at scale. You will remain deeply hands-on, working directly with customer architects, principal engineers, engineering leaders, and technical teams on novel and difficult problems spanning intelligent networking, agentic AI, automation, enterprise integrations, data, distributed systems, and cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Beyond individual engagements, you will identify patterns across customer environments, recognize systemic platform gaps, and turn field learning into reference architectures, reusable capabilities, engineering standards, and improvements to Extreme's products and platforms. ### Key Responsibilities: - Shape cross-engagement technical strategy, architecture, and engineering practices, including establishing reference architectures and technical standards that can be applied across the FDE organization. - Lead critical architecture and engineering decisions for complex customer solutions spanning applications, AI systems, data, APIs, integrations, networking, security, infrastructure, and production operations. - Remain deeply hands-on, writing production-quality software and solving novel or high-risk engineering problems. - Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex engineering and production-readiness challenges across FDE engagements. - Identify recurring patterns across customer environments and turn them into reusable architectures, components, integrations, tools, skills, automation, and other capabilities that accelerate future deployments. - Identify systemic platform gaps and define new feature requirements, working with Product teams to incorporate recurring customer needs into Extreme's products and platforms. - Mentor engineers and raise the technical and engineering bar across the FDE organization. ### Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience. - 15+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations. - Extensive hands-on software development experience with strong proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, C#, or C++. - Extensive experience architecting and delivering complex production systems across domains such as AI, automation, data, networking, enterprise integrations, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure. - Demonstrated ability to solve highly ambiguous, cross-system technical problems where architecture or engineering approaches are not already established. - Experience providing technical direction across multiple systems, teams, or significant engineering initiatives. - Strong customer orientation and experience working directly with customer technical teams in complex enterprise environments. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical decisions, tradeoffs, and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Ability to travel to customer sites as required by the engagement ### Preferred Qualifications: - Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related discipline. - Deep experience building production generative AI or agentic systems involving tool use, retrieval, planning, orchestration, context management, evaluation, guardrails, and production operations. - Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and modern agent frameworks. - Experience with networking, network management, telemetry, observability, or distributed control systems. - Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and enterprise deployment patterns. - Experience with enterprise identity, authorization, security, and data integration. - Prior experience in Forward Deployed Engineering or another deeply technical customer-facing software engineering role. ### Equal Employment Opportunity 1. Extreme Networks, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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. 2. 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 - Extreme Networks will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Philadelphia Fair Criminal Record Screening Standards Ordinance, Illinois Human Rights Act, Cook County Human Rights Ordinance, Seattle Fair Chance Employment Ordinance, and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. An applicant's conviction history will not be considered until after a conditional offer of employment has been made. Following any individualized assessment, applicants will be provided with the opportunity to respond before any adverse action is taken. - 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. [View posting at Extreme Networks](https://jobs.lever.co/extremenetworks/4815cf4b-cc1f-4d72-b6bf-b17bd0b8fae3/apply) ## About Extreme Networks Cloud-driven end-to-end enterprise networking — switching, Wi-Fi, and a unified AI-powered management/security platform — for 50,000+ organizations worldwide. 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