2 months ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$155k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
- Define and implement solutions for complex infrastructure and engineering productivity problems from architecture through production.
- Build internal developer platforms, tools, and services that improve development, deployment, and operational workflows.
- Design and optimize CI/CD platforms and pipelines, including build and test performance, reliability, scalability, and developer feedback.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational workflows.
- Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform capabilities.
- Build reliable, observable, resilient, secure, and disaster-recovery-capable systems.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and platform issues, participate in incident response and root-cause analysis, and resolve systemic problems.
- Evaluate technologies, recommend architectures, establish standards, and lead technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related fields.
- Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals with experience developing production-quality tools and services.
- Deep production Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting complex environments.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or on-premises infrastructure, including self-managed or bare-metal environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or Ansible and with CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, infrastructure architecture, server provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
- Hands-on experience with Ansible, Chef, or similar configuration management and automation technologies.
- Strong programming skills in at least one of Go, Python, Rust, or C++.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices.
- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive scalable solutions through production.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and cross-functional teams.
- Preferred experience includes internal developer platforms, Kubernetes operators or controllers, Kubernetes CNI/CSI, distributed technologies, Jenkins, VPN, SSO, infrastructure security, network infrastructure, data center operations, and enterprise customer deployments.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Santa Clara, California.
- Competitive base salary, equity, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, retirement savings, wellness program, disability coverage, holidays, and other benefits.
- Unlimited PTO and 40 hours of Volunteer Time Off per year.
- Internet stipend and 401(k).
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache CassandraApache KafkaAWSAzureC++ChefElasticsearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPythonRustTerraform
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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.