Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer (Bay Area)

Fortanix•Santa Clara, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.