Director of Engineering -Exchange

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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. With double-digit growth year over year, no provider is better positioned to deliver scalable outcomes than Extreme.

Inclusion is one of our core values and in our DNA. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that embraces our differences and creates an atmosphere where all our employees thrive because of their differences, not in spite of them.

Become part of Something big with Extreme! As a global networking leader, learn why there's no better time to join the Extreme team.

Are you energized by the idea of shaping the future of generative AI and agentic systems? Do you want to help define how intelligent agents discover capabilities, use tools, collaborate across systems, and deliver meaningful outcomes for customers? Do you aspire to create global impact while tackling challenges at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, cloud platforms, security, and large-scale product engineering?

Then come, advance with us.

This is an incredible opportunity to work at the forefront of AI-driven networking, agentic automation, cloud-native platforms, and intelligent product experiences. You will help lead the development of a next-generation platform that enables an ecosystem of AI agents, tools, skills, and integrations designed to support highly scalable, secure, reliable, and adaptable enterprise use cases.

There has never been a better time to join Extreme. Following several acquisitions that have expanded our portfolio and go-to-market strategy, we continue to see significant opportunity and growth across regions. As a Technology Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Extreme is also deeply committed to fostering a culture that embraces diversity, inclusion, and equality in the workplace. Our motto is "Advance with us," and it applies to everyone we work with — inside and outside the company.

We are driving a fundamental shift in how businesses manage wired and wireless networks by building high-performance, real-time systems that can perceive, reason, retrieve context, use tools, and take intelligent action on behalf of users. You will lead engineering teams working on strategic AI platform capabilities, including agent orchestration, tool and skill ecosystems, secure integration frameworks, scalable microservices, and enterprise-grade runtime infrastructure.

You will partner closely with product, architecture, security, cloud operations, and other engineering leaders to define the technical direction and deliver high-impact systems that are reliable, extensible, and built for long-term scale.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide visionary technical and organizational leadership for teams building next-generation AI agent platforms, tool ecosystems, and cloud-native services, including agent orchestration, tool invocation, skill discovery, workflow execution, context management, and governance.
• Define and drive the engineering roadmap for highly scalable, secure, reliable, and extensible systems that enable AI agents, tools, skills, integrations, and enterprise workflows across Extreme's product portfolio.
• Build, mentor, and lead high-performing teams, including hiring, performance management, developing leaders, and fostering a culture of strong engineering standards, accountability, and innovation.
• Drive execution across multiple programs and teams, ensuring clear priorities, predictable delivery, effective risk management, and alignment with product, architecture, security, Cloud Ops, and senior leadership.
• Guide complex architectural and technical decisions, including trade-offs related to distributed systems, multi-agent workflows, latency, reliability, cost efficiency, tenant isolation, data privacy, and platform extensibility.
• Champion production readiness and operational excellence, including secure-by-design development, API consistency, observability, SLOs, capacity planning, resiliency, automation, and measurable quality outcomes.
• Stay current with emerging AI and platform trends, including agent frameworks, MCP-based tooling, skill ecosystems, RAG patterns, LLM integration, evaluation, guardrails, and enterprise AI governance.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 10+ years of engineering leadership experience and 5+ years managing managers or multiple engineering teams.
• Proven track record of designing, delivering, and operating complex, high-impact AI, ML, generative AI, automation, or intelligent software platforms.
• Strong practical understanding of generative AI and agentic architectures, including LLM integration, Model Context Protocol, RAG, agents, tools, skills,…