principal software engineering Site Reliability Engineer tech_leadership · Posted Nov 18, 2025
$202,000 – $247,000
USD per year

About this role

Fortinet is hiring a principal-level Site Reliability Engineer in the software engineering function based in Santa Clara, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, Rust, AWS. Compensation is listed at $202,000–$247,000 per year.

Role
Site Reliability Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
principal
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Department
Site Reliability Engineering
Posted
Nov 18, 2025
AI Summary
Principal SRE leading infrastructure design, automation, and operational excellence for FortiCNAPP cloud security platform. Architect scalable systems, drive reliability practices, mentor teams, and guide incident response. Requires deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and systems design.

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Job description

from Fortinet careers

At Fortinet, we strive to provide a supportive, collaborative environment where people are empowered to do the best work of their careers.

Our team members enjoy solving complex problems, and obsess over getting the details right. We love what we do and are proud of our work to secure clouds and container environments for thousands of b2b customers worldwide.

Our team is growing, and we are looking for engineers with passion for automation. You will help support the FortiCNAPP platform and play a key role in building, operating, and improving the FortiCNAPP Cloud Security Platform, the world's best real-time cloud-native threat detection system.

Our team develops and supports the infrastructure layers spanning our cloud accounts, network/connectivity, workload management, observability, and storage services. We build tooling to perform automated operations in order to scale the FortiCNAPP infrastructure and service. To be successful you will design, define, develop, deploy and operate internal tooling, APIs, and frameworks which streamline our workflows and automate our infrastructure.

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