Platform Security Engineering Leader

Fastly, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 228,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Paid holidays and wellness days

Job summary

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Security to shape and lead the long-term technical vision of our security platform.

You will guide a cross-functional team across engineering disciplines, aligning initiatives with business goals and security objectives. The role emphasizes strategic impact over routine maintenance and requires strong collaboration with executives and product teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing Platform or Site Reliability Engineering teams.
• 10+ years of related technical experience with distributed systems and infrastructure as code.
• Demonstrated ability to drive a durable technical roadmap and facilitate effective collaboration in cross-functional teams.
• Experience with secrets and workload identity management, including using tools like SPIFFE, SPIRE, HashiCorp Vault, etc.
• Experience building and automating large scale production infrastructure in public cloud and on-prem environments. Using TFE or similar technologies.
• Extensive hands on experience working in a Linux environment with a solid understanding of system internals and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term strategic vision and multi-year technical roadmap for the Platform Security domain, ensuring these investments align with Fastly’s overall business and security objectives.
• Oversee and develop a high-performing team that includes engineers and principal-level individual contributors, focusing on organizational structure, talent development, and scaling team capabilities to meet future demand.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders using a product-owner mindset to define clear roadmaps and priorities.
• Drive organizational-wide adoption of best practices for operational excellence, reliability, and security, establishing metrics and accountability across all platform services.
• Clearly communicate the function’s strategy, progress, and risk profile to executive leadership and technical stakeholders across the company.
• While you will not be expected to write code, you will need to leverage deep, related technical experience to succeed in this role

Skills

SRE management

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Linux performance optimization

Cloud & on-prem infrastructure

Go/Python

Tools

SPIFFE/SPIRE

HashiCorp Vault

Terraform / IaC

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Security to shape and lead the long-term technical vision of our security platform.

You will guide a cross-functional team across engineering disciplines, aligning initiatives with business goals and security objectives. The role emphasizes strategic impact over routine maintenance and requires strong collaboration with executives and product teams.