Fortanix

Forward Deployed Engineer

Fortanix
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Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop customer-specific reference architectures and working integrations for the Fortanix Confidential AI platform.
  • Build connectors, workload tooling, and integrations with customers’ existing stacks and orchestration systems.
  • Design attestation and key-release flows protecting customer workloads, keys, and models end to end.
  • Scope and develop proofs of concept with clear success criteria and enterprise-focused designs.
  • Translate field learnings into RFCs, feature designs, and product requirements with core product and engineering teams.
  • Contribute code, reviews, and RFCs to the open-source community.
  • Create reusable reference architectures, sample workloads, and design patterns.

Requirements

  • 4–7 years of hands-on experience in systems, infrastructure, platform, or security engineering, including meaningful customer-facing experience.
  • Strong Linux systems skills covering kernel boot, systemd, storage and filesystems, networking, and PCIe devices.
  • Working experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, or Slurm is preferred.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Rust, Go, or Python and ability to make targeted changes in unfamiliar codebases.
  • Familiarity with cryptography and PKI, including certificates, key formats, TLS, signing, and key management concepts.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain attestation to CISOs and debug TDX quote failures with platform teams.
  • Ability to work independently, set expectations, and escalate early.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model in Bengaluru, India.
  • 12 annual leaves, 12 casual/sick leaves, 8 public holidays, and 2 floating holidays.
  • Comprehensive medical and dental insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
  • Group life insurance and personal accident insurance.
  • Internet reimbursement.
  • Employee stock options.
  • Onsite snacks, lunches, and dinners.
  • Quarterly beer bashes and year-end celebrations.

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About Fortanix

201-500 employees

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.

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