Extreme Networks is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a senior technical leader, driving the architecture and evolution of embedded Wi-Fi solutions. You will influence system-level design, guide engineering teams, and ensure the robustness and performance of applications running on Linux OS.
What You'll Do
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex real-time embedded software systems for Wi-Fi products.
- Define technical direction for embedded Linux components, ensuring long-term maintainability, performance, and scalability.
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives, aligning embedded software, hardware, and systems engineering.
- Evaluate new technologies, tools, and methodologies to improve product quality and development efficiency.
- Own critical software modules end-to-end, from requirements and design through implementation, validation, and long-term sustainment.
- Maintain and enhance existing embedded Wi-Fi products, providing engineering support to customers as needed.
- Participate in requirements analysis, technical documentation reviews, and specification discussions.
- Develop and execute component-level, module-level, subsystem, and system-level test procedures.
- Provide expert-level debugging and root-cause analysis for complex issues across the embedded Linux stack.
- Lead the development of multi-threaded, high-performance applications under Linux with real-time constraints.
- Conduct and enforce code reviews sessions, offering constructive feedback and mentoring junior developers.
- Ensure engineering rigor by defining best practices, coding standards, and design patterns for embedded development.
- Partner with product management, hardware teams, and customer engineering to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Act as a senior technical point of escalation for customer issues, guiding teams through complex problem resolution.
- Lead design and code reviews, providing high-quality feedback and raising the technical bar across the team.
- Mentor and coach junior and intermediate engineers, fostering growth in embedded systems, networking, and Linux development.
- Champion a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to long-term team capability building through documentation, training, and architectural guidance.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Extensive experience in real-time embedded systems and data communication.
- Deep expertise in embedded Linux internals, kernel-space and user-space interactions, and performance optimization.
- Strong understanding of Wi-Fi protocols (IEEE 802.11) and wireless networking fundamentals.
- Advanced proficiency in C and C++ for embedded development.
- Proven track record designing and delivering complex embedded systems at scale.
- Strong experience with multi-threaded programming, concurrency models, and synchronization mechanisms.
- Solid understanding of networking technologies: Ethernet, IP, routing, switching, and LAN/WLAN concepts.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence across teams and present complex ideas clearly.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and drive architectural decisions.
Nice to Have
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Experience with RF systems, spectrum analyzers, and wireless test equipment.
- Background in module performance tuning, system profiling, and real-time optimization.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining Linux kernel components.
- Familiarity with IEEE Wi-Fi and LAN standards development or participation in standards bodies.
Technical Stack
- Embedded Linux
- C
- C++
- Linux Kernel
- Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11)
- Ethernet
- IP
- Routing
- Switching
Team & Environment
This role is based in our Thornhill (Toronto) office.
Work Mode
This role is an onsite position in Thornhill (Toronto).
