Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Terraform, Python & Production

Fortinet, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the FortiSOC Cloud Platform team. You will own parts of the cloud platform from design through production, tackling infrastructure-as-code, backend automation, and observability.

The role requires 4+ years in software engineering with cloud experience, strong Python, Terraform/OpenTofu, Kubernetes, and on-site four days per week. The US base salary range is $140,000-$160,000 plus benefits.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years on cloud infrastructure or DevOps/SRE-style systems.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Hands-on infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, OpenTofu or similar tools.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience running production services, debugging live issues and participating in on-call.
• Solid Linux, networking fundamentals and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• On-site in Santa Clara, CA, four days per week, collaborating with local/global teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the cloud infrastructure that provisions and manages customer environments.
• Develop automation for deployment, provisioning, upgrades, scaling, backup and disaster recovery.
• Build and enhance Python platform services that orchestrate cloud resources and manage the customer stack lifecycle.
• Write and review infrastructure-as-code using Terraform/OpenTofu, and help keep modules consistent across environments.
• Improve monitoring, alerting and operational tooling so problems are caught before customers notice them.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and rollback mechanisms.
• Troubleshoot production issues across cloud infrastructure, backend services, databases and networking.
• Work with product, QA, SRE and security teams to deliver secure, reliable features.
• Take part in production support and the on‑call rotation.

Skills

Python

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Linux networking

On-call experience

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Job description

Fortinet, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the FortiSOC Cloud Platform team. You will own parts of the cloud platform from design through production, tackling infrastructure-as-code, backend automation, and observability.

The role requires 4+ years in software engineering with cloud experience, strong Python, Terraform/OpenTofu, Kubernetes, and on-site four days per week. The US base salary range is $140,000-$160,000 plus benefits.