Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer, Fortanix
$155-230k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Data security platform
Open for applications
Data security platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$155-230k
+ 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
- The ideal candidate has a broad understanding of infrastructure architecture, deep expertise in Kubernetes and Linux, strong programming skills, and the technical leadership to take ambiguous problem statements and drive them from design through implementation
- 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related fields
- Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals with experience developing production-quality tools and services
- Deep production Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting complex environments
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or on-premises infrastructure; self-managed or bare-metal
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies
- Experience designing and improving CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure architecture
- Strong experience with server provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management
- Hands-on experience with Ansible, Chef, or similar configuration management and automation technologies
- Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Go, Python, Rust, or C++
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices
- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive scalable, maintainable solutions through production
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and cross-functional teams
- If you’re interested in working in a fast growing, exciting working environment – we encourage you to apply!
Desirable
- Experience building internal developer platforms or developer productivity tooling
- Experience operating Kubernetes in on-premises, private cloud, or bare-metal environments
- Experience with Kubernetes operators, controllers, or Kubernetes-native tooling
- Experience defining engineering productivity or platform reliability metrics
- Kubernetes CNI/CSI and networking/storage expertise
- Experience with distributed technologies such as Cassandra, etcd, Ceph, Kafka, or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
- Jenkins architecture or administration experience
- Experience with VPN, SSO, infrastructure security, or network infrastructure
- Hardware/server provisioning and data center operations experience
- Enterprise customer deployment or customer-facing infrastructure experience
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to help architect, build, and evolve the infrastructure and tooling behind our products and engineering organization
- This is a highly technical, hands-on role for an engineer who can work across cloud, on-premises, data center, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, and software development. You will help define how our infrastructure should be designed—not simply implement predefined solutions
- You’ll work across internal infrastructure, production environments, and customer deployments, solving complex infrastructure problems and building scalable, automated solutions
- Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments
- Identify complex infrastructure and engineering productivity challenges and drive solutions from problem definition through architecture, implementation, and production
- Build and improve internal developer platforms, tools, and services that simplify development, deployment, and operational workflows
- Design, build, and optimize CI/CD platforms and pipelines, improving build and test performance, reliability, scalability, and developer feedback cycles
- Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational workflows to reduce engineering toil and improve efficiency
- Improve the developer experience across the software lifecycle, partnering with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and deliver high-impact improvements
- Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform capabilities that establish consistent and scalable engineering practices
- Build systems with strong reliability, observability, resilience, security, and disaster recovery capabilities
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues, participate in incident response and root-cause analysis, and drive long-term solutions to systemic problems
- Evaluate technologies and architectural approaches, make pragmatic technical recommendations, and establish infrastructure and engineering standards and best practices
- Lead technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams, influence architecture and engineering practices, and contribute to the long-term infrastructure and developer productivity strategy
- What Success Looks Like:
- You solve complex infrastructure problems across multiple layers of the technology stack
- You can move seamlessly between architecture, software development, automation, and hands-on troubleshooting
- Improve the reliability and scalability of shared infrastructure and CI/CD systems
- You build reusable solutions that improve reliability, scalability, and engineering productivity
- Proactively identify systemic technical problems before they become significant business or operational issues
- You understand how Kubernetes and the infrastructure beneath it work and use that knowledge to build reliable, scalable systems
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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