Salary
≈ $148k – $292k per year (Estimated)
Location
In office (Santa Clara)
Seniority
Middle · 3+ years exp
Visa
H-1B filings in 12 months: 125 · for this role: 48 · green card filings: 113
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 16, 2026. Fortinet scores A on the Alion truth index.
Overview
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Fortinet is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2000 by two brothers who had previously built the intrusion prevention firm NetScreen. It is best known for FortiGate, a firewall built around custom silicon that gives it a price and throughput advantage over software-only competitors, and it has extended that installed base into a wide security platform covering secure access service edge, endpoint protection, security operations and switching and wireless. Headquartered in Sunnyvale and listed on Nasdaq, it sells almost entirely through channel partners and is unusually strong with mid-sized enterprises and service providers.
Backed by Redpoint Ventures, Five Elms Capital, SixThirty
Responsibility
- Build AI security solutions for enterprise customers.
- Design and implement security controls for agentic AI systems, including agents, tools, and agent-to-agent interactions.
- Work cross-functionally with PM and QA teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions.
- Develop pre-sales and post-sales tools and environments to support customer evaluations, deployments, troubleshooting, and integration.
- Research emerging technologies and security trends to identify new opportunities and develop innovative solutions.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills in Python or Go, or in a systems language such as Rust or C/C++.
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of backend development experience, including cloud-native infrastructure, networking, and building reliable services at scale.
- Solid understanding of application and network protocols, such as HTTP, gRPC, and WebSocket, and/or hands-on experience with reverse proxies, API gateways, or identity-aware proxies.
- Self-drive and proactive with strong problem-solving and debugging skills and a focus on delivering high-quality solutions.
Strong Plus
- Hands-on experience with the agentic AI ecosystem, including MCP, tool calling, and agent frameworks.
- Experience with LLM and agent security, including areas such as prompt injection, tool poisoning, jailbreaks, and agent security controls.
- Background or professional experience in cybersecurity, particularly application security, network security, identity, or API security.
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