Staff Cloud Platform Engineer: Scale & Reliability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Job summary

Fortinet in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the FortiSOC Cloud Platform team. You will design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure powering FortiSOC Cloud deployments.

As a senior member, you will own automation, reliability, and scalability across infra, backend services, deployment automation, observability, and DR. The role requires onsite work five days a week and strong distributed-systems expertise.

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.
• 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 programming

Infrastructure as code

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed systems design

Linux networking

Problem solving

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Job description

Fortinet in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the FortiSOC Cloud Platform team. You will design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure powering FortiSOC Cloud deployments.

As a senior member, you will own automation, reliability, and scalability across infra, backend services, deployment automation, observability, and DR. The role requires onsite work five days a week and strong distributed-systems expertise.