Staff Cloud Platform Engineer – Reliability & Automation

Perception Point; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k)

11 paid holidays

Vacation time

Sick time

Equity program

Job summary

Fortinet in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and operate our FortiSOC Cloud Platform. You will own automation, reliability, and scalability across cloud infrastructure and backend services, collaborating closely with product, QA, SRE, and security teams.

The role requires 8+ years in software engineering with 4+ in cloud infrastructure, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu) and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 4 years in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering.
• 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.
• Must be able to work onsite in Santa Clara, CA five days per week.

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

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Linux

Networking

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Fortinet in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and operate our FortiSOC Cloud Platform. You will own automation, reliability, and scalability across cloud infrastructure and backend services, collaborating closely with product, QA, SRE, and security teams.

The role requires 8+ years in software engineering with 4+ in cloud infrastructure, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu) and Kubernetes.