Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Fortinet

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$140,000–$160,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
25 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Below market

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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.

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

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.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build and maintain cloud infrastructure to provision and manage customer environments.
  • Develop automation for deployment, provisioning, scaling, backup, and disaster recovery.
  • Build and enhance Python services to orchestrate cloud resources and manage customer lifecycles.
  • Write and review infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or OpenTofu.
  • Improve monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling to detect issues proactively.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and rollback mechanisms.
  • Troubleshoot production issues across cloud infrastructure, backend services, databases, and networking.
  • Participate in production support and the on-call rotation.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 2+ years of experience working on cloud infrastructure, platform, or DevOps/SRE-style systems.
  • Strong Python programming skills.
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar tools.
  • Experience with containers and Kubernetes.
  • Experience running production services, including debugging live issues and participating in on-call.
  • Solid Linux, networking fundamentals, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
  • Experience with one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, OpenStack, Azure, or Google Cloud (preferred).
  • Experience with ClickHouse or other distributed databases (preferred).
  • Experience with observability tools and alerting (preferred).
  • Exposure to high availability, backup/restore, or disaster recovery work (preferred).
  • Experience working on SaaS platforms or large-scale production services (preferred).
  • Interest or background in cybersecurity, SIEM, or cloud security products (preferred).

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