Staff Software Engineer – Cloud Platform (FortiSIEM)

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.

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.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, OpenStack, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with ClickHouse or other distributed databases.
• Experience with observability platforms, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Experience designing disaster recovery and high availability solutions.
• Experience building SaaS platforms or operating large-scale production services.
• Experience in cybersecurity, SIEM, or cloud security products.