Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

• We are looking for a Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to help architect, build, and evolve the infrastructure and tooling behind our products and engineering organization
• 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. You will help define how our infrastructure should be designed—not simply implement predefined solutions
• You’ll work across internal infrastructure, production environments, and customer deployments, solving complex infrastructure problems and building scalable, automated solutions
• Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments
• 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
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational workflows to reduce engineering toil and improve efficiency
• 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
• Evaluate technologies and architectural approaches, make pragmatic technical recommendations, and establish infrastructure and engineering standards and best practices
• Lead technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams, influence architecture and engineering practices, and contribute to the long-term infrastructure and developer productivity strategy
• What Success Looks Like:
• You solve complex infrastructure problems across multiple layers of the technology stack
• You can move seamlessly between architecture, software development, automation, and hands-on troubleshooting
• Improve the reliability and scalability of shared infrastructure and CI/CD systems
• You build reusable solutions that improve reliability, scalability, and engineering productivity
• Proactively identify systemic technical problems before they become significant business or operational issues
• You understand how Kubernetes and the infrastructure beneath it work and use that knowledge to build reliable, scalable systems

Benefits

• Generous Leave: Fortanix offers generous leave packages including competitive PTO, a global recharge day every quarter, paid volunteer time off and paid parental leave
• Insurance: We offer competitive health, dental, and vision plans as well as short-term and long-term disability and life insurance
• Financial: Our financial benefits include Employee Stock Options for every employee
• Flexible Work Options: Hybrid or remote work options depending on location
• Social: Socialize with your co-workers through company-provided lunches and dinners for in-office employees, quarterly beer bashes, weekly happy hours, and other special events- The ideal candidate has a broad understanding of infrastructure architecture, deep expertise in Kubernetes and Linux, strong programming skills, and the technical leadership to take ambiguous problem statements and drive them from design through implementation
• Hands-on experience with Ansible, Chef, or similar configuration management and automation technologies
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and cross-functional teams
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices
• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related fields
• Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals with experience developing production-quality tools and services
• Strong experience with server provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management
• Experience designing and improving CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
• Deep production Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting complex environments
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure architecture
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or on-premises infrastructure; self-managed or bare-metal
• Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Go, Python, Rust, or C++
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive scalable, maintainable solutions through production
• If you’re interested in working in a fast growing, exciting working environment – we encourage you to apply!
• Hardware/server provisioning and data center operations experience
• Experience operating Kubernetes in on-premises, private cloud, or bare-metal environments
• Experience building internal developer platforms or developer productivity tooling
• Experience with distributed technologies such as Cassandra, etcd, Ceph, Kafka, or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
• Jenkins architecture or administration experience
• Enterprise customer deployment or customer-facing infrastructure experience
• Experience defining engineering productivity or platform reliability metrics
• Experience with VPN, SSO, infrastructure security, or network infrastructure
• Kubernetes CNI/CSI and networking/storage expertise
• Experience with Kubernetes operators, controllers, or Kubernetes-native tooling