Staff Cloud Platform Engineer — Automation & Reliability

NGP Management Oy; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Vacation time

Sick time

Leave program

Job summary

Fortinet seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join the FortiSOC(SIEM) Cloud Platform team in Santa Clara, US. This role designs, builds, and operates the cloud infrastructure powering FortiSOC Cloud deployments.

As a senior member, you will own automation, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across the platform, working across infrastructure, backend services, deployment automation, observability, and disaster recovery to enable customers to deploy FortiSOC reliably at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4 years in cloud platform or infrastructure.
• 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.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a systems-thinking mindset.
• Must be able to work onsite in Santa Clara, CA five days per week and collaborate effectively with local and global engineering teams.

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.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Troubleshooting

Problem solving

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Fortinet seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join the FortiSOC(SIEM) Cloud Platform team in Santa Clara, US. This role designs, builds, and operates the cloud infrastructure powering FortiSOC Cloud deployments.

As a senior member, you will own automation, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across the platform, working across infrastructure, backend services, deployment automation, observability, and disaster recovery to enable customers to deploy FortiSOC reliably at scale.