Senior Software Engineer, Platform Security
About The Position
Fastly is seeking a Senior Engineer to represent our Platform Security team, with a specialized focus on Trust and Identity infrastructure. This is a high-impact individual contributor role for a technically exceptional engineer with deep experience in secure platform services at incredible scale. You will drive the execution of initiatives foundational to Fastly’s internal authentication, identity, and access control systems. This position is ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex problems, guiding architecture, and is passionate about resilience —while keeping systems secure and scalable. You will help shape Fastly’s internal trust architecture for years to come.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a technical capacity as an individual contributor
- Team player in areas such as Privileged Access Management, workload identity management, LDAP, secrets management, or trust systems
- Strong systems engineering background with deep experience in Linux, networking, and distributed systems
- Demonstrated expertise in modern programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust) and infrastructure tooling (e.g., Terraform, Vault, Consul, Chef)
- Passionate about demos, feedback-driven work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts for varying audiences and produce clear and comprehensive documentation
- A collaborative mindset with experience working across cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of respect, knowledge sharing and innovation influencing technical decisions at the org level
Nice To Haves
- Implementing zero-trust architectures or identity-aware access proxies
- Designing scalable secrets lifecycle management workflows
- Working with PKI and certificate automation at scale
- Contributing to open source identity or security tooling
- Experience in cutting edge technologies (e.g. SPIFE/SPIRE, modern PAM tooling)
Responsibilities
- Work alongside peers to define the long-term vision for trust and identity infrastructure and translate it into tangible execution plans aligned with business goals
- Design and implement scalable internal trust solutions such as secrets management, PKI, and authentication services
- Own Complex Challenges: Tackle ambiguous, technically demanding initiatives with multiple stakeholders and organization-wide impact
- Cross-Functional: Partner deeply with Product, Security, Compliance, and other Engineering teams
- Impact Management: Proactively identify potential situations that could negatively affect the business or customers and develop strategies to mitigate these risks before they escalate.
- Promote Engineering Excellence: Establish and evangelize technical standards, code quality, reliability, and operational maturity
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Family planning
- mental health support
- Employee Assistance Program
- Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
- Flexible Vacation policy
- up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
- 401(k) (including company match)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- 12 paid local holidays
- 12 paid company wellness days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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