# Software Dev QA Engineer

Fortinet is developing high-performance security platforms for data center and carrier/service-provider networks. We are looking for a QA Engineer to join the FortiGate Chassis platform team and help validate high-end firewall systems designed for high throughput, scalability, resiliency, and availability. The role focuses on distributed state synchronization, session-aware traffic distribution, system resiliency, performance, scalability, and automation. Our ideal candidate has strong networking and Linux fundamentals, good troubleshooting and scripting skills, and enjoys working with complex systems and new technologies. Job Duties Design, execute, and automate functional, system, performance, scalability, and reliability testing for FortiGate Chassis platforms. Validate synchronization and consistency of configuration, FIB/FDB, sessions, and other runtime states across chassis components. Validate packet forwarding and session-aware load balancing/distribution under high-throughput and large-scale traffic conditions. Test system resiliency, state recovery, and service continuity during module failure, restart, failover, upgrade, and other system transitions. Troubleshoot complex

- **Id**: 176773
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/fortinet-blog-software-dev-qa-engineer>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-23T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T10:30:15Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 198
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4089
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Information Security

## Company

- **Id**: 52696
- **Name**: Fortinet
- **Domain**: fortinet.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/fortinet-blog>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 181
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.796
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 3
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 136000
- **Max**: 176000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 176000

## Technologies

- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **FortiGate** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Tcpdump** — Optional: no
- **VLAN** — Optional: no
- **Wireshark** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **KVM** — Optional: yes
- **VMWare** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 198

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-30T16:25:24Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-09-09T18:15:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 125 · green card filings: 113; Filings 12m: 125

## Liveness

- **Score**: 1
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.123
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 198
- **Expected fill days**: 3
- **Reasons**: seen:59, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 176000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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