Staff Cloud Platform Engineer — Scale & Reliability (Equity Eligible)

Fortinet, Inc.

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 179,000 - 219,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Fortinet, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the FortiSOC Cloud Platform team in Santa Clara, CA.

You will own the cloud infrastructure powering FortiSOC Cloud deployments and drive automation, reliability, and scalability across the full software stack. As a senior member, you will design, build, and operate cloud platform services, modern CI/CD pipelines, and disaster recovery processes while collaborating with global engineering teams to deliver highly available security SaaS

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.
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.