Fortanix
Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer (Bay Area)
Santa Clara, California, United States · Staff+
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$32,075 more — $187,075 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- 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.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational workflows to reduce engineering toil and improve efficiency.
- Evaluate technologies and architectural approaches, make pragmatic technical recommendations, and establish infrastructure and engineering standards and best practices.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Lead technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams, influence architecture and engineering practices, and contribute to the long-term infrastructure and developer productivity strategy.
- Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals with experience developing production-quality tools and services.
- We are able to support H-1B transfers for candidates already in H-1B status and may consider sponsorship for candidates currently in the United States on F-1 or J-1 status.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related fields.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or on-premises infrastructure
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
- 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.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire.
- For this role, candidates must have a minimum of 24 months of current U.S. work authorization remaining without the need for employer sponsorship.
Nice to have
- 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.
Skills
- Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Go, Python, Rust, or C++.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and cross-functional teams.
Compensation
- $155k-$230k
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Retirement Savings, Wellness Program, Short-and Long-Term Disability, Holidays, and more.
- If you're interested in working in a fast growing, exciting working environment - we encourage you to apply!
Company info
- Recognized as a Great Place to Work, we're looking for passionate individuals to help us shape the future of data security and work towards a safer digital future.
- We are not initiating new visa sponsorships for candidates who would require entry into the H-1B lottery from outside the United States.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace with
- equal opportunity for all applicants and teammates.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire
This listing is sourced directly from Fortanix's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.