Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure and Devops (Bay Area)

Uncover; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortanix in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure and DevOps team. You will lead DevOps initiatives, design scalable infrastructure, and help accelerate release cycles across environments.

The ideal candidate combines strong leadership with hands-on expertise in cloud technologies, CI/CD, security practices, and collaboration across engineering, security, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading DevOps teams and delivering scalable infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technology leadership to the DevOps team.
• Design and manage a resilient and scalable infrastructure to support development, testing and production environments.
• Design and implementing scalable, reliable CI/CD pipelines and tooling.

Skills

DevOps leadership

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Monitoring & observability

Security best practices

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tools

Job description

About Fortanix: In today's world, where data spreads across various clouds and devices, traditional security measures aren't enough. Businesses need a dynamic approach to defend against constant cyber threats and ensure agile data security. Fortanix leads the way in data-centric cybersecurity for hybrid multicloud environments, using advanced cryptography, encryption, and confidential AI solutions. As data breaches become more frequent and traditional defenses fall short, we focus on data exposure management to keep your information safe. Our unified data security platform addresses vulnerabilities in hybrid multicloud environments, defends against threats, and makes it easier to discover, assess, and fix data exposure risks. Whether implementing a Zero Trust model or preparing for the post-quantum computing era, we help businesses worldwide protect their most sensitive data, wherever it is. Our commitment to solving the world’s toughest data security challenges has earned Fortanix multiple Cybersecurity Excellence and Innovation Awards, as well as recognition from industry giants such as NVIDIA, Microsoft, Intel, ServiceNow, and Snowflake. Our team includes industry leaders and cryptography experts, creating a culture of trust, innovation and collaboration where every voice is valued. Recognized as a Great Place to Work, we're looking for passionate individuals to help us shape the future of data security and work towards a safer digital future.

As the Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure and Devops, you will be a part of our Infrastructure team, and your responsibilities will include:

• Providing technology leadership to the DevOps Team.
• Designing and managing a resilient and scalable infrastructure to support application development, testing, and production environments.
• Designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Creating detailed architecture diagrams, documentation, and standards for DevOps processes and tools.
• Automating and accelerating the development, testing, release and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably.
• Contributing to defining security best-practices, and work on "Shift Left" security to guarantee application security at the earliest stages of development.
• Continuously assessing and optimizing the technology stack to ensure alignment with industry best practices and emerging trends.
• Collaborating with development, operations, and security teams to ensure DevOps processes support application needs.
• Mentoring junior engineers in the team in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
• Contributing to a friendly and helpful company culture.

Ideal Candidate

• Is able to work with people across various locations.
• Excellent project management and leadership skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Exhibits uncompromising integrity.
• Pays attention to detail.
• Can work independently, while also being an effective member of a team.
• Enjoys programming and embraces cloud technologies.