Fortinet · 7 hours ago
Senior/Staff Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$185K/yr - $265K/yr
6+ years expFortinet is looking for a Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the FortiCNAPP Team. The role involves owning and operating a high-availability, cross-cloud data processing system as part of Fortinet-Lacework’s Cloud security platform, focusing on designing and implementing scalable platforms for large data volumes.
Cyber SecurityMobileNetwork SecuritySecurity
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
401(k)
11 paid holidays
Vacation time
Sick time
Comprehensive leave program
Company
Fortinet
Fortinet is a provider of network security appliances that include firewalls, security gateways, and complementary products. It is a sub-organization of Fortinet Federal.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$89MKey Investors
Meritech Capital PartnersDEFTA Partners
2009-11-18IPO
2004-03-03Series Unknown· $50M
2003-08-29Series D· $30M
Leadership Team
Ken Xie
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Michael Xie
Founder, President & CTO
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