Senior Software Engineer, Platform Security

What You'll Do:

• 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

What We're Looking For:

• 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

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• 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)

This position will require you to be available during core business hours. It will also require occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support any on-call coverage.

This position is also open to Hybrid And Remote Work Locations.

The preferred locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• New York, NY
• Denver, CO

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.