This role pays more than
87%
of similar roles. Most pay
$169,550–$215,775
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$236k
versus about
$193k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Fortinet
Fortinet is a US-based cybersecurity company best known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls. It sells a broad security platform spanning network security, SD-WAN, endpoint protection, cloud security, and SIEM/SOC operations.
Fortinet currently has
43 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$179,000–$219,000
across 35 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Verification Engineer, you will join a cross-functional team of software, hardware, and ASIC engineers to own the end-to-end verification platform for ASIC drivers and networking software. You will be responsible for designing and developing scalable verification frameworks, automation infrastructure, and test environments while establishing verification strategies and standards across multiple teams. Your daily work involves performing deep root cause analysis on complex issues across software, driver, and hardware layers, conducting code reviews, and mentoring engineers to grow into senior roles. The role requires expertise in Ruby, Python, Linux command line, and kernel-space concepts. You will address technical challenges involving TCP/IP, routing, switching, and firewalls while building tools to generate network traffic and simulate test scenarios to ensure the reliability of networking products and ASIC driver functionality.