Senior Platform & Infra Engineer — Kubernetes & Cloud

Fortanix; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Volunteer Time Off (40 hours/year)

Internet stipend

401(k)

Job summary

Fortanix is seeking a Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to architect, build, and evolve the infrastructure and tooling behind our products and engineering organization.

This highly technical, hands-on role spans cloud, on-premises, data center, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, and software development. You will define infrastructure design, build scalable automation, and lead cross-team initiatives to improve reliability and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related fields.
• Deep production Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting complex environments.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and/or on-premises and/or bare-metal.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing and improving CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure architecture.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Chef).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Identify complex infra and productivity challenges and drive end-to-end solutions.
• Build and improve internal developer platforms, tools, and services for development, deployment, and operations.
• Design, build, and optimize CI/CD platforms and pipelines for reliability and speed.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Improve developer experience and productivity across the software lifecycle.
• Develop infrastructure as code and platform capabilities for scalable practices.
• Build systems with strong reliability, observability, resilience, security, and disaster recovery.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Go

Python

Rust

C++

SRE/DevOps

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Job description

Fortanix is seeking a Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to architect, build, and evolve the infrastructure and tooling behind our products and engineering organization.

This highly technical, hands-on role spans cloud, on-premises, data center, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, and software development. You will define infrastructure design, build scalable automation, and lead cross-team initiatives to improve reliability and developer productivity.