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.
As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work directly with customer technical teams to design, build, deploy, and stabilize production solutions using Extreme’s products and platforms.
You will take ownership of significant engineering workstreams and, depending on the engagement, complete customer solutions. You will work across application development, agentic AI, integrations, data, APIs, automation, networking, and cloud infrastructure to solve problems in real customer environments.
You will write production software, troubleshoot complex systems, and work through ambiguity without requiring a fully defined technical specification. You will also help identify reusable engineering patterns and platform gaps based on what you learn while delivering customer solutions.