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

Fortanix•Santa Clara, CA

11h•$155,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Fortanix is a leader in data-centric cybersecurity for hybrid multicloud environments, utilizing advanced cryptography, encryption, and confidential AI solutions. The company focuses on data exposure management to protect sensitive information in an increasingly complex digital landscape. Fortanix's unified data security platform addresses vulnerabilities, defends against threats, and helps businesses discover, assess, and fix data exposure risks. Recognized for its innovation and industry partnerships, Fortanix fosters a culture of trust, innovation, and collaboration, and is a Great Place to Work. The Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure and Devops will be a key member of the Infrastructure team, contributing to the company's mission of solving tough data security challenges.

Requirements

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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.