Fortinet
Staff Software Engineer – Cloud Platform (FortiSIEM)
$179K–$219K
Santa Clara, CA · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4 years in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates the cloud infrastructure and platform services that enable reliable FortiSOC Cloud deployments at scale.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain platform infrastructure and automation for provisioning, deployment, upgrades, scaling, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Improve platform services, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, availability, and operational tooling.
- Troubleshoot production issues, support on-call operations, and collaborate with product, QA, SRE, and security teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong Python skills and experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar technologies.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, highly available distributed systems, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
- Strong Linux, networking, and troubleshooting skills; must work onsite in Santa Clara, CA five days per week.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS, OpenStack, Azure, or Google Cloud; ClickHouse or other distributed databases.
- Experience with observability, disaster recovery, SaaS platforms, large-scale production services, or cybersecurity/SIEM products.
Pay
$179,000-$219,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Terraform, OpenTofu, Kubernetes, AWS, OpenStack, Azure, Google Cloud
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