Cloud Platform Engineer: Automate, Deploy & Observe

Fortinet; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

11 paid holidays

Vacation time

Sick time

Comprehensive leave program

Equity program

Job summary

Fortinet in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a hands-on backend engineer to build and run reliable cloud services. You will work primarily with Python and automation, interfacing with cloud infrastructure and containerized services.

Responsibilities include developing backend systems, contributing to automation, IaC, and CI/CD, and collaborating with product, QA, SRE, and security teams. On-site four days a week; on-call after training.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
• Experience programming in Python via coursework, projects, or work.
• Solid CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, software design.
• Familiarity with Linux and basic networking.
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services and automation in Python.
• Contribute to automation for provisioning, deployment, upgrades, scaling, backup, and DR.
• Maintain infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/OpenTofu.
• Support containerized services with Kubernetes.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational tooling.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated tests.
• Participate in code reviews and document work.
• Gradually take production support responsibilities and on-call after training.

Skills

Python programming

CS fundamentals

Data structures & algorithms

Linux basics

Git & collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

On-site work readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

Terraform/OpenTofu

Job description

Fortinet in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a hands-on backend engineer to build and run reliable cloud services. You will work primarily with Python and automation, interfacing with cloud infrastructure and containerized services.

Responsibilities include developing backend systems, contributing to automation, IaC, and CI/CD, and collaborating with product, QA, SRE, and security teams. On-site four days a week; on-call after training.