Senior Software Engineer, GenAI

Fortinet

Confirmed live yesterday High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Salary
$160,000–$200,000 / yr
Posted
162 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $172k
This role $180k
$107k most similar roles pay here $237k

This role pays more than 70% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$192,775 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $180k versus about $172k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

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.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Fortinet

At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, GenAI

As a Senior Software Engineer – GenAI, you will join the team dedicated to creating innovative products like FortiGPT and other GenAI innovations to integrate AI across the product range. You will manage the entire software development lifecycle, including designing, developing, testing, and maintaining GenAI/ML software systems while troubleshooting existing products and executing system integrations in cloud-based and on-premises environments. Your daily work involves implementing new features, managing source control, and optimizing high-performance software architecture with multithreading programming. You will utilize Python on Linux, with potential use of Java and C++. The role requires expertise in AWS or Azure, Docker containerized environments, web development, and both relational and vector database development. You will apply your knowledge of LLM technologies to build next-generation platforms while following professional engineering practices like code reviews and QA standards.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.

See salary data

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain Fortinet's GenAI and machine learning software systems.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues within existing products.
  • Execute system integrations across both cloud-based and on-premises environments.
  • Manage code quality and updates using source control systems.
  • Optimize and support existing software systems while documenting maintenance procedures.
  • Develop and implement new software features according to specific requirements.
  • Build high-performance software architecture utilizing multithreading programming.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years, Master’s with 3+ years, or PhD with 1+ year in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Proficiency in Python on Linux is required.
  • Experience in other programming languages such as Java and C++ (preferred).
  • Minimum of 3 years experience with AWS or Azure and containerized environments; Docker is preferred.
  • Solid understanding of LLM development environments and experience in GenAI development (beneficial).
  • Hands-on experience in Web development, relational database development, and vector database development.
  • Expertise in large-scale/high-performance software design, architecture, and multithreading programming.

More like this

Similar roles

Senior Software Engineer

Genworth Financial

Richmond, VA +1 61 days ago $96,700$145,000
Python Flask Azure PostgreSQL GitLab CI/CD DevSecOps JavaScript HTML CSS React Angular Vue Azure App Service Azure Synapse Pipelines SQL
5+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer

Datadog

96 days ago $192,000$240,000
Go Python C Redis Cassandra Kafka Data Pipelines AI Backend Systems Feature Flags Statistics
6+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer

Morningstar Inc

Chicago, IL 67 days ago
Python FastAPI Flask PostgreSQL SQL Server Weaviate Pinecone AWS S3 Aurora RDS Lambda Redis Celery Git CI/CD Pandas Plotly Matplotlib QlikView GraphQL LangGraph AutoGen OpenAI Anthropic MistralAI Transformers
5+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 58 days ago $119,800$234,700
C++ Win32 COM Windows Services WinRT RPC C C# ETW IPC RDP PCoIP ICA Kernel Driver Development Threading System APIs Telemetry Agile
4+ yrs exp

Senior Software Engineer

Mastercard

Salt Lake City, UT 11 days ago $115,000$184,000
Java Spring Boot Spring Integration React JavaScript Node.js RxJS HTML5 CSS SQL PostgreSQL AWS GCP Azure Docker Kubernetes TDD BDD REST SOAP
5+ yrs exp

Senior Software Engineer

Caterpillar

Chicago, IL 36 days ago $153,317$183,140
Salesforce Marketing Cloud AMPscript SQL HTML CSS GTL Azure DevOps JIRA SDLC Agile Email Marketing Automation Workflows Data Integration
5+ yrs exp