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This role pays less than
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$169,300–$249,962
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$199k
versus about
$210k
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
102 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$140,000–$183,000
across 77 roles with salary data.
The 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 owning automation, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across infrastructure, backend services, deployment automation, observability, and disaster recovery. You will develop platform services in Python, manage cloud resources, and improve infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and OpenTofu. Key responsibilities include building cloud-native services using containers and Kubernetes, designing CI/CD pipelines, and troubleshooting complex production issues across databases, networking, and deployment systems. The role addresses the technical challenge of managing highly available distributed systems and ensuring customers can reliably operate FortiSOC at scale through high availability, resiliency, and automated provisioning of customer environments.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
Kubernetes
Terraform
Python
Go
AWS
Google Cloud Platform
Helm
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
SRE
Configuration Management
Flux
Linux
TCP/IP
HTTP
WAF
IAM
Monitoring
Containerization