Staff Cloud Platform Engineer - SIEM & Cloud Infra

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

Job summary

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

Responsibilities include building cloud platform infrastructure, automating deployment and scaling, and enhancing Python-based services that orchestrate resources. You will work with product, QA, SRE, and security teams to ensure high availability and secure services, participating in

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 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

Terraform/OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Linux

Networking

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Systems thinking

Tools

Docker

Job description

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

Responsibilities include building cloud platform infrastructure, automating deployment and scaling, and enhancing Python-based services that orchestrate resources. You will work with product, QA, SRE, and security teams to ensure high availability and secure services, participating in