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

**Company:** [Fortanix](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fortanix)
**Location:** Santa Clara, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $155k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Prometheus
**Posted:** 2026-02-27

> Leads DevOps team in designing scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation using cloud technologies. Requires 6+ years experience, Linux proficiency, programming in Python/Go/Rust/Ruby, and expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, and major clouds.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Provide technology leadership to the DevOps Team.
- Design and manage a resilient and scalable infrastructure to support application development, testing, and production environments.
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure CI/CD pipelines.
- Create detailed architecture diagrams, documentation, and standards for DevOps processes and tools.
- Automate and accelerate the development, testing, release and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably.
- Contribute to defining security best-practices, and work on "Shift Left" security to guarantee application security at the earliest stages of development.
- Continuously assess and optimize the technology stack to ensure alignment with industry best practices and emerging trends.
- Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure DevOps processes support application needs.
- Mentor junior engineers in the team in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
- Contribute to a friendly and helpful company culture.

## Requirements
- 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**.

## Preferred
- **Jenkins**, **Linux**, **Docker**, **Kubernetes**, **AWS**, **Azure**, **GCP**, **Chef**, **Terraform**, **Ansible**, **Sensu**, **Python**, **Go**, **Rust**, **Ruby**, **Elasticsearch**.

## Compensation
- Base salary: $155,000 - $230,000 / Year.
- Additional compensation may include bonus, equity or commissions.
- Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Retirement Savings, Wellness Program, Short-and Long-Term Disability, Holidays, Unlimited PTO, 40 hours Volunteer Time Off/year, Internet stipend, 401k.

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