Principal Software Development Engineer

Fortinet • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

Fortinet is looking for a Staff/Principal Software Engineer to assist FortiCNAPP Team! Be a valuable member of the team 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related, relevant field
• Solid foundation in Computer science fundamentals
• 4+ 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 including SQL Databases, Snowflake, Postgres, Redshift, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.
• Ability to build systems that balance scalability, availability, and latency.
• Great communication skills and a team player.

Nice To Haves

• 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

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 company leadership and at company-wide events
• Help recruit other Engineers
• Actively participate in recruiting other Engineers
• Mentor less experienced Engineers

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.
• All roles are eligible to participate in the Fortinet equity program, Bonus eligibility is reviewed at time of hire and annually at the Company’s discretion.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees