Fortinet

Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Platform (FortiSIEM)

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11 hours ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$140k - $160k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain cloud infrastructure that provisions and manages customer environments.
  • Develop automation for deployment, provisioning, upgrades, scaling, backup, and disaster recovery.
  • Build Python platform services that orchestrate cloud resources and manage customer stack lifecycles.
  • Write and review Terraform/OpenTofu infrastructure-as-code modules.
  • Improve monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling.
  • Contribute to deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, and rollback mechanisms.
  • Troubleshoot production issues across infrastructure, backend services, databases, and networking, and create lasting fixes and runbooks.
  • Collaborate with product, QA, SRE, and security teams on secure and reliable features.
  • Participate in production support and the on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years working on cloud infrastructure, platform, or DevOps/SRE-style systems.
  • Strong Python programming skills.
  • Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar tools.
  • Experience with containers and Kubernetes.
  • Experience running production services, debugging live issues, and participating in on-call support.
  • Solid Linux, networking fundamentals, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
  • Preferred: experience with AWS, OpenStack, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Preferred: experience with ClickHouse or other distributed databases.
  • Preferred: experience with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar observability tools.
  • Preferred: exposure to high availability, backup/restore, disaster recovery, SaaS platforms, large-scale production services, cybersecurity, SIEM, or cloud security products.
  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k), 11 paid holidays, vacation time, sick time, and a comprehensive leave program.
  • Eligibility for the Fortinet equity program and potential bonus eligibility.
  • Full-time position based onsite in Santa Clara, California four days per week.
  • Participation in an on-call rotation.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureClickHouseGoogle CloudGrafanaKubernetesLinuxOpenStackPrometheusPythonTerraform

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About Fortinet

10,000+ employees

Fortinet is a public cybersecurity company that builds network security hardware and software for enterprises, service providers, and governments. Its FortiGate firewalls, secure networking (SD-WAN), endpoint and cloud security, and threat intelligence subscriptions are sold via direct and channel partners. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Fortinet trades on NASDAQ (FTNT) and serves more than 660,000 customers worldwide.

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