Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Fortinet is looking for a Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the FortiCNAPP Team! Be a valuable team member that owns and operates high-availability, cross-cloud, large-volume, data processing system that is one of the foundational pieces of Fortinet-Lacework’s Cloud security platform. Design and implement resilient, flexible, and highly scalable platforms for collecting and processing terabytes per day.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop services to scale to massive customer accounts in the cloud
• Develop functional specifications and design documents by collaborating with stakeholders
• Write high quality, well documented, and well-tested code
• Participate in code and design reviews
• Design, build, test, and operate highly scalable, highly available, cost-effective, mission-critical services
• Build roadmaps and goals in partnership with engineering and product teams
• Work cross-functionally with other Engineering, Product Management, Support, Sales teams as well as Customers
• Inform strategic build-vs-buy decisions
• Demonstrate good communication skills and present work to group leadership and at group-wide events
• Actively participate in recruiting other Engineers
• Mentor less experienced Engineers

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related, relevant field
• Solid foundation in Computer science fundamentals
• 6+ years of relevant experience
• Implemented scalable microservices using languages like Java/Go/Rust. Python experience would be beneficial
• Experience in one or more data stores and technologies including SQL Databases, Snowflake, Postgres, Redshift, Hadoop, Cassandra, Lakehouse etc.
• Ability to build systems that balance scalability, availability, and latency
• Great communication skills and a team player

Preferred Qualifications

• Used at scale or contributed to the development of the following types of distributed systems- messages brokers (Kafka, SQS), API and application servers (REST, GRPC)
• Used at scale or contributed to the development of services in the Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience in containerized deployment or Kubernetes.
• Experience in graph data algorithms and processing.
• Built, tested and operated mission critical services and demonstrated service ownership by continuous improvement of services; considering performance, cost and efficiency; being on-call for their services

Benefits

Fortinet offers employees a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k), 11 paid holidays, vacation time, and sick time as well as a comprehensive leave program.

Compensation

Wage ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, and job level. On target earnings for this position is expected to be $185,000 - $265,000 per year. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Equity & Incentives

All roles are eligible to participate in the Fortinet equity program, and this position is also eligible for commissions based on the terms of the Sales Compensation Plan