Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform
Fortinet
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This role pays less than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$193,700 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $150k versus about $172k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
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The Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Platform (FortiSIEM) joins the FortiSOC (SIEM) Cloud Platform team to build and run the cloud infrastructure behind FortiSOC Cloud. This role involves owning platform components from design through production, specifically focusing on provisioning, upgrading, monitoring, and backing up customer deployments. You will develop automation for deployment, scaling, and disaster recovery while building Python platform services to orchestrate cloud resources. Key responsibilities include writing and reviewing infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and OpenTofu, managing CI/CD pipelines, and troubleshooting production issues across databases and networking. Required skills include Python, Kubernetes, containers, and Linux fundamentals. You will solve technical problems related to managing the customer stack lifecycle and ensuring high availability for a security information and event management product.
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