Staff Software Engineer, Fortanix
Rust, Confidential Computing Infrastructure
Offers equity
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Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Data security platform
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Data security platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers equity
More information about location
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To solve the world's most demanding data challenges for our customers.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 3–5+ years of production Rust in systems, backend, or infrastructure
- Strong experience building and operating distributed systems or platform infrastructure
- Production Kubernetes experience (operators/controllers strongly valued)
- Strong Linux systems programming and debugging skills
- Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- CI/CD and production deployment pipelines
- Experience with distributed data stores (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
- What we value
- Infrastructure and platform ownership mindset
- Security-first engineering
- Pragmatic, high-quality Rust systems development
- Mentorship and technical leadership
- Reliability and operational excellence
Desirable
- Hands-on confidential computing / TEE development (Intel SGX, Intel TDX, AMD SEV, Nitro Enclaves, etc.)
- Experience building or operating enclave or confidential workload platforms
- Rust performance-sensitive systems (async, networking, storage, runtime)
- Platform architecture ownership at scale
- Observability and reliability engineering for distributed platforms
- Secure or privacy-preserving AI infrastructure
- Experience deploying AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes
- Multi-tenant or regulated cloud environments
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Rust) to join our Confidential Computing Management team - the group responsible for designing, building, and operating the confidential computing infrastructure that secures our Generative AI platform
- This is a deeply hands-on role focused on building Rust services and infrastructure that run inside and around trusted execution environments (Intel SGX, Intel TDX, AMD SEV) across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You’ll shape the architecture of a platform that enables secure, confidential AI workloads at scale
- Design and build Rust-based platform and infrastructure services for confidential computing environments
- Design and implement services that execute inside TEEs and integrate attestation, sealing, and confidential workload orchestration
- Architect and evolve our confidential computing infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Build and operate Kubernetes-based confidential workload platforms
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and security posture
- Define infrastructure architecture and influence cross-team technical direction
- Mentor engineers in Rust, distributed systems, and confidential computing practices
- Drive production excellence: observability, resilience, deployment, and capacity planning
- You will design, implement, and operate systems such as:
- Enclave-resident Rust services and supporting control-plane infrastructure
- Rust infrastructure services for confidential workload orchestration
- Secure scheduling, attestation, and key-management services
- Kubernetes operators and controllers for confidential workloads
- Confidential runtime and Runtime Encryption® components (SGX/TDX/SEV)
- Hybrid/multi-cloud deployment and isolation infrastructure
- High-assurance services requiring strong isolation and memory safety
Our take
Fortanix is a cybersecurity company on a mission to revolutionize cloud security and privacy. Think of it as a digital bodyguard for your most sensitive data, safeguarding everything from keys to applications against both internal and external threats.
Since its launch in 2016, ZFortanix has secured some serious partnerships, with the likes of Intel, Microsoft, and Google. It's also earned the trust of some big brand names, including Adidas, PayPal, the US Department of Defense, and the University of California, San Francisco.
But what really makes Fortanix stand out is its growth. In 2022, when cybersecurity investments were scarce, the company raised a successful Series C round, proving its worth in a tough market. Since then, it's been strengthening its partnerships, expanding its offerings, and making significant strides in the ASEAN/APAC markets.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2022
$90m
SERIES C
Jan 2019
$23m
SERIES B
Total funding: $121m
Company benefits
- Generous Leave: Fortanix offers generous leave packages including competitive PTO, a global recharge day every quarter, paid volunteer time off and paid parental leave
- Insurance: We offer competitive health, dental, and vision plans as well as short-term and long-term disability and life insurance
- Financial: Our financial benefits include Employee Stock Options for every employee
- Flexible Work Options: Hybrid or remote work options depending on location
- Social: Socialize with your co-workers through company-provided lunches and dinners for in-office employees, quarterly beer bashes, weekly happy hours, and other special events
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Anand Kashyap
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously MTS at Arkin Net, Principal Security at Symantec, and a Research Intern at Microsoft Research India.
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