Senior Platform Security Engineer — Trust & Identity

Fastly, Inc.; Quinte West; Hybrid; CAD 254,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity program

Discretionary bonus

Hybrid/Remote options

Job summary

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform Security team, focusing on Trust and Identity infrastructure. This high-impact IC role drives security, resilience, and scale for internal authentication and access control systems.

You will define the long-term vision, design scalable solutions, and collaborate across Product, Security, Compliance, and Engineering. Remote/hybrid options available; travel may be required. Strong communication and leadership are valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical IC experience in security/platform engineering.
• Strong Linux, networking, and distributed systems background.
• Experience with Go, Python, or Rust and infra tooling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; collaborative across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term vision for trust and identity infrastructure and translate into execution plans.
• Design scalable internal trust solutions such as secrets management, PKI, and authentication services.
• Tackle complex initiatives with multiple stakeholders and organization-wide impact.
• Establish and evangelize standards for code quality, reliability, and operational maturity.

Skills

Privileged Access Management

Workload identity management

LDAP

Secrets management

Trust systems

Linux

Networking

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Rust

Code documentation

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Vault

Consul

Chef

Job description

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform Security team, focusing on Trust and Identity infrastructure. This high-impact IC role drives security, resilience, and scale for internal authentication and access control systems.

You will define the long-term vision, design scalable solutions, and collaborate across Product, Security, Compliance, and Engineering. Remote/hybrid options available; travel may be required. Strong communication and leadership are valued.