Staff Software Engineer – Cloud Platform (FortiSIEM)
The Staff Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain the cloud infrastructure and automation for FortiSOC Cloud deployments. The role focuses on scalability, reliability, and operational excellence using Python, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
- Compensation
- $179K–$219K / yr
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA, United States
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering
- Strong Python programming skills
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar
- Experience building cloud-native services using containers and Kubernetes
- Experience designing and operating highly available distributed systems
- Strong Linux, networking, and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Must be able to work onsite in Santa Clara, CA five days per week
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS, OpenStack, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Experience with ClickHouse or other distributed databases
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Experience designing disaster recovery and high availability solutions
- Experience building SaaS platforms or operating large-scale production services
- Experience in cybersecurity, SIEM, or cloud security products
Full description
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the FortiSOC(SIEM) Cloud Platform team in Santa Clara, US. This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating the cloud infrastructure that powers FortiSOC Cloud deployments.
As a senior member of the platform team, you will own the automation, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our cloud platform. You will work across infrastructure, backend services, deployment automation, observability, and disaster recovery to ensure customers can deploy and operate FortiSOC reliably at scale.
This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who enjoys solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure challenges while working across the full software stack.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain cloud platform infrastructure that provisions and manages customer environments.
- Develop automation for deployment, provisioning, upgrades, scaling, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Build and enhance platform services written in Python and other backend technologies that orchestrate cloud resources and manage platform lifecycle.
- Improve infrastructure-as-code using Terraform/OpenTofu and related automation frameworks.
- Enhance monitoring, observability, alerting, and operational tooling across platform and tenant environments.
- Improve platform reliability through high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and rollback mechanisms.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across cloud infrastructure, backend services, databases, networking, and deployment systems.
- Partner with product, QA, SRE, and security teams to deliver secure and highly available cloud services.
- Drive continuous improvements in operational efficiency, automation, and platform scalability.
- Participate in production support and on-call rotation to ensure service reliability.
Qualifications Required
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 4 years in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong Python programming skills.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar technologies.
- Experience building cloud-native services using containers and Kubernetes.
- Experience designing and operating highly available distributed systems.
- Strong Linux, networking, and troubleshooting skills.