Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure and Devops (Bay Area)

Job Description

Job Description

About Fortanix:

In today's world, where data spreads across various clouds and devices, traditional security measures aren't enough. Businesses need a dynamic approach to defend against constant cyber threats and ensure agile data security. Fortanix leads the way in data-centric cybersecurity for hybrid multicloud environments, using advanced cryptography, encryption, and confidential AI solutions.

As data breaches become more frequent and traditional defenses fall short, we focus on data exposure management to keep your information safe. Our unified data security platform addresses vulnerabilities in hybrid multicloud environments, defends against threats, and makes it easier to discover, assess, and fix data exposure risks. Whether implementing a Zero Trust model or preparing for the post-quantum computing era, we help businesses worldwide protect their most sensitive data, wherever it is.

Our commitment to solving the world’s toughest data security challenges has earned Fortanix multiple Cybersecurity Excellence and Innovation Awards, as well as recognition from industry giants such as NVIDIA, Microsoft, Intel, ServiceNow, and Snowflake.

Our team includes industry leaders and cryptography experts, creating a culture of trust, innovation and collaboration where every voice is valued. Recognized as a Great Place to Work, we're looking for passionate individuals to help us shape the future of data security and work towards a safer digital future.

As the Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure and Devops, you will be a part of our Infrastructure team, and your responsibilities will include:

• Providing technology leadership to the DevOps Team.
• Designing and managing a resilient and scalable infrastructure to support application development, testing, and production environments.
• Designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Creating detailed architecture diagrams, documentation, and standards for DevOps processes and tools.
• Automating and accelerating the development, testing, release and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably
• Contributing to defining security best-practices, and work on "Shift Left" security to guarantee application security at the earliest stages of development.
• Continuously assessing and optimizing the technology stack to ensure alignment with industry best practices and emerging trends.
• Collaborating with development, operations, and security teams to ensure DevOps processes support application needs.
• Mentoring junior engineers in the team in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities
• Contributing to a friendly and helpful company culture

The ideal candidate is someone who:

• Is able to work with people across various locations.
• Excellent project management and leadership skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Exhibits uncompromising integrity
• Pays attention to detail
• Can work independently, while also being an effective member of a team
• Enjoys programming and embraces cloud technologies

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.

• 6+ years of software engineering experience in development, operations, and full stack implementations.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Architect or similar role.
• Solid experience with Linux
• Proficient with various programming languages such as Python/Go/Rust/Ruby for automation and integrations.
• Experience with the core suite of tools used to manage infrastructure and deployment of application in different cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Experience with industry Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery patterns (CI/CD)
• Strong networking experience with technologies in TCP/IP, WAN, Gateways, Switching/Routing and Cloud Networking.
• Experience with one or more of:·

• Virtualization or container environments like VMWare, KVM and Docker
• Orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform
• Continuous integration systems like Jenkins or similar
• Configuration and provisioning management tools like Chef, Ansible, and Puppet
• Monitoring tools such as Sensu, Prometheus, Nagios or similar
• Logging and analytics tools like Elasticsearch

Preferred technical experience with:

• Jenkins
• Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP
• Chef, Terraform, Ansible
• Sensu
• Python, Go, Rust, Ruby
• Elasticsearch

Benefits

• We offer a collaborative work environment, amazing equity, great benefits, competitive salary, and the opportunity to redefine cloud computing.

• Unlimited PTO (it’s between you and your work!)
• 40 hours of Volunteer Time Off/year

• Internet stipend
• Friendly culture that brings the best out of everybody
• 401k

Base salary offers for this position may vary based on factors such as location, skills, and relevant experience. Some positions may include additional compensation in the form of bonus, equity or commissions. We offer the following benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Retirement Savings, Wellness Program, Short-and Long-Term Disability, Holidays, and more. The compensation for this role is $155,000 - $230,000 / Year.

Fortanix is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace with equal opportunity for all applicants and teammates. Our goal is to recruit the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other status. If you’re interested in working in a fast growing, exciting working environment – we encourage you to apply!

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire.

For this role, candidates must have a minimum of 24 months of current U.S. work authorization remaining without the need for employer sponsorship.

We are able to support H-1B transfers for candidates already in H-1B status and may consider sponsorship for candidates currently in the United States on F-1 or J-1 status. We are not initiating new visa sponsorships for candidates who would require entry into the H-1B lottery from outside the United States.