3 months ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build distributed microservices for Fortanix’s confidential computing platform.
- Own services end to end, including architecture, APIs, deployment, scaling, and production reliability.
- Drive technical direction and lead system design and API discussions across the platform.
- Write production-grade Rust, C/C++, or similar systems-level code and contribute to code reviews.
- Build secure, resilient, auditable, and maintainable systems across hybrid and multicloud environments.
- Partner with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams on complex cross-functional systems.
- Mentor and guide engineers on system design, code quality, and engineering rigor.
- Contribute to Runtime Encryption® technology and confidential computing services.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend and distributed systems expertise.
- Experience designing and building microservices from scratch and integrating them into larger architectures.
- Experience owning services through design, development, deployment, scaling, and operations.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, including scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and data consistency.
- Strong Rust programming experience; C, C++, Go, or similar systems-level languages are also considered.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized environments, AWS, GCP, Azure, and production deployment pipelines.
- Experience working in Linux environments, including debugging and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL data storage, distributed storage, and caching.
- Experience or interest in confidential computing, Trusted Execution Environments, key management, encryption, secure storage, and access control.
- Nice-to-have experience includes performance-critical systems, systems programming, secure AI, privacy-preserving systems, infrastructure platforms, or developer platforms.
Benefits
- Hybrid workplace in Santa Clara, United States.
- Unlimited PTO, 40 hours of Volunteer Time Off per year, and an internet stipend.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, retirement savings/401(k), wellness program, short- and long-term disability, holidays, and other benefits.
- Equity and potential additional compensation through bonus or equity are mentioned, but no base salary amount is provided.
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About Fortanix
Fortanix builds a unified data security platform for enterprises to discover, protect, and control sensitive data across hybrid multicloud. Its products span key management and HSM-as-a-service, tokenization and secrets management, and confidential computing built on technologies such as Intel SGX. The company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is privately held and sells software and SaaS subscriptions.