Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Fortinet

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Work type: On-site
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Salary: $179,000–$219,000 / yr
Posted: 20 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

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Staff Software Engineer – Cloud Platform (FortiSIEM) joins the FortiSOC(SIEM) Cloud Platform team to design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure powering FortiSOC Cloud deployments. This role focuses on ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence by managing infrastructure, backend services, deployment automation, observability, and disaster recovery. The engineer will develop Python-based platform services to orchestrate resources, improve infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or OpenTofu, and enhance CI/CD pipelines and rollback mechanisms. Key technical requirements include expertise in Kubernetes, containers, Linux, networking, and distributed systems. The role involves troubleshooting complex production issues across databases and networking while collaborating with product, QA, SRE, and security teams. The work centers on the specific domain of SIEM and cloud security products, solving challenges related to high availability and automated provisioning for large-scale cloud environments.

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Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.

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Skills

Python Terraform OpenTofu Kubernetes CI/CD AWS Azure Google Cloud OpenStack ClickHouse Linux Networking Distributed Systems SaaS SIEM Infrastructure-as-Code Observability Monitoring Logging Alerting

What you'll do

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure to provision and manage customer environments.
Develop automation for deployment, provisioning, scaling, backup, and disaster recovery.
Build backend services in Python to orchestrate cloud resources and manage platform lifecycle.
Improve Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or OpenTofu frameworks.
Enhance monitoring, observability, alerting, and operational tooling across tenant environments.
Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated rollback mechanisms.
Troubleshoot complex production issues across infrastructure, databases, networking, and deployment systems.

What we're looking for

Must have at least 8 years of software engineering experience.
Must have at least 4 years of experience in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering.
Strong Python programming skills are required.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar technologies is required.
Experience building cloud-native services using containers and Kubernetes is required.
Experience designing and operating highly available distributed systems is required.
Strong Linux, networking, and troubleshooting skills are required.
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