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Fortanix

Cloud-based data security with key management

Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

Full-Time
$155k - $230k/yr+ Equity
Senior
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Hybrid
DevOps & InfrastructurePlatform Engineering
H1B Sponsorship Available

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 6 years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, site reliability engineering, DevOps, or related fields.
  • Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals, including experience developing production-quality tools and services.
  • Deep production Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting complex environments.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and/or on-premises infrastructure such as self-managed or bare-metal environments.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
  • Experience designing and improving CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.
  • 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.
  • Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Go, Python, Rust, or C++.
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices.
  • Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive scalable, maintainable solutions through production.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and cross-functional teams.
  • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire.
  • Candidates must have at least 24 months of current U.S. work authorization remaining without the need for employer sponsorship.
Responsibilities
  • 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 by 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.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building internal developer platforms or developer productivity tooling.
  • 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.
  • Enterprise customer deployment or customer-facing infrastructure experience.

About the company

Fortanix provides cloud-based data security solutions, focusing on encryption key management and data protection through a Level 3 hardware security module (HSM) delivered as a cloud service. Its flagship Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) unifies key management and data security, while its platform supports confidential computing and zero-trust access, helping enterprises verify and secure connections before granting access. The company differentiates itself by offering a flexible, easy-to-integrate cloud HSM and unified data security suite designed for large organizations with complex security needs, paired with strong customer support. The goal is to help enterprises deploy secure, scalable data protection in the cloud with a zero-trust, confidential computing approach.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$135.3M

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • On September 1, 2026, Fortanix announced a CrowdStrike partnership for AI security.
  • July 2026 deals with L&T Vyoma and TELUS expand sovereign-AI demand.
  • March 2026 launches for quantum entropy and Confidential AI broaden DSM adoption.

What critics are saying

  • CrowdStrike, NVIDIA, and HPE can commoditize Fortanix’s confidential-AI layer by 2027.
  • Partner-led distribution gives hyperscalers leverage and weakens Fortanix’s pricing power.
  • Enterprise security budgets consolidate around platform vendors, starving point solutions like Fortanix.

What makes Fortanix unique

  • Fortanix DSM combines key management, encryption-in-use, and attestation across hybrid environments.
  • Its software-defined quantum entropy avoids hardware swaps while diversifying key generation sources.
  • Fortanix sells through NVIDIA, CrowdStrike, NTT DATA, and sovereign-cloud partners.

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Benefits

Hybrid Work Options

12 Annual Leaves & 12 Casual/Sick Leaves

8 Public Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays

Comprehensive Medical and Dental Insurance Coverage for employees and their eligible dependents

Group Life Insurance

Personal Accident Insurance

Internet Reimbursement

Employee Stock Options

Wellness Program

Remote Work Options

Flexible Work Hours

Paid Vacation

Paid Sick Leave

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National Diversity Council
Oct 6th, 2026
Recent posts.

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Radhakrishnan, Vice-President of India, and extends it into an ecosystem purpose-built for production - with data residency, language fine-tuning and auditability built in from the ground up for regulated and government workloads in Middle East as well. Contact centers across the region face growing pressure to modernize customer experience while meeting compliance requirements that are rarely optional in banking, insurance, healthcare and government sectors. The harder problem isn't accessing AI - it's deploying it directly into the CCaaS/CPaaS platforms enterprises already run, fine-tuned to the languages their customers speak. Ascent closes that gap, pairing Gnani AI's technology with regional GTM and implementation partners. 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Gnani AI's agentic and conversation AI capabilities, combined with Rise's go-to-market and implementation reach, let us bring that to market faster and with far greater confidence," said Omar Alomari, Head of Business Development & Innovation, Rise (A National Holding Company). "Fortanix is proud to partner with Gnani AI to redefine the architecture of trust for the enterprise," said Anuj Jaiswal, Chief Product Officer, Fortanix. "Together, we are removing the tradeoff between innovation and privacy, so enterprises can be confident that their data and intellectual property remain protected and under their control." "We've spent over a decade building the connectors that let disparate enterprise systems work together. Conversation AI is no different - it needs to plug into the same ERPs, CRMs and operational systems our customers already run. 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CxOToday
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Crypto Briefing
Jun 9th, 2026
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Deepgram partners with Fortanix and Nvidia for secure voice AI deployment in regulated industries. The collaboration brings confidential computing to real-time voice AI, keeping audio data and model weights encrypted even during active inference. Just now ago Voice AI has a trust problem in the industries that need it most. Hospitals, banks, and government agencies have spent years watching from the sidelines as consumer-facing AI tools race ahead, held back by a simple question: who else can hear what its AI hears? Deepgram is betting it has an answer. The voice AI company announced a partnership with Fortanix and Nvidia on June 1, 2026, to enable fully encrypted, on-premises voice AI deployments designed specifically for regulated industries. The core pitch: organizations can now run voice transcription, AI-powered customer support agents, and analytics tools while keeping both the audio data and the proprietary model weights encrypted during real-time inference. How confidential computing changes the game for voice AI. To understand why this matters, think about what normally happens when an AI model processes your voice. The audio gets decrypted so the model can analyze it, which creates a window of vulnerability. It's like a bank vault that has to open its doors every time someone needs to count the money inside. Confidential computing eliminates that window. The technology, built on Nvidia's Confidential Computing-enabled GPUs and powered by Fortanix's Confidential AI platform, allows Deepgram's models to process voice data while it remains encrypted. In English: the vault stays locked, but the money still gets counted. This applies to both sides of the equation. Sensitive audio, think patient conversations or financial advisory calls, stays protected. And Deepgram's proprietary model weights, the intellectual property baked into how its AI actually works, remain shielded from the organizations hosting them on-premises. Deepgram claims this is the first implementation of confidential computing in real-time voice AI applications. If that holds up, it positions the company at the front of a very specific but potentially enormous market: enterprises that want cutting-edge voice AI but can't or won't send sensitive audio to a third-party cloud. Building on an existing on-premises push. This announcement didn't come out of nowhere. Deepgram has been building toward secure deployment options for a while, offering on-premises and Virtual Private Cloud solutions as alternatives to its cloud API. The Fortanix and Nvidia partnership extends that strategy by adding a hardware-level encryption layer that goes beyond traditional network security. Just days earlier, on May 27, 2026, Deepgram announced a separate initiative around low-latency voice agents built on Nvidia's Nemotron technology. That release focused on speed. This one focuses on security. Together, they sketch out a product roadmap aimed at making Deepgram's voice AI fast enough and safe enough for the most demanding enterprise environments. The target use cases are straightforward: private on-premises voice agents that can handle customer interactions without data leaving the building, enterprise-grade transcription services for sensitive meetings and calls, and IT service desk tools that can automate support workflows while maintaining strict data governance. For healthcare organizations bound by HIPAA, financial institutions navigating a web of compliance requirements, and government agencies with strict data sovereignty mandates, these aren't nice-to-have features. They're prerequisites. For Fortanix, this collaboration extends their Confidential AI platform into voice, an area where the security stakes are arguably higher than in text-based AI. Voice data is inherently more personal, harder to anonymize, and often subject to stricter regulatory treatment than written communications. Disclosure: This article was edited by Editorial Team. For more information on how Cryptobriefing create and review content, see its Editorial Policy.

Business Wire
Jun 1st, 2026
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