Senior Data Security Architect: Scale Data Protection

Fastly; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 181,220 - 217,464; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k match

Paid holidays

Flexible vacation

Employee stock plan

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a Senior Data Security Architect to serve as the technical authority on protecting sensitive data across corporate and production systems. You will translate governance requirements into robust controls embedded in systems and pipelines touching our most sensitive data.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, and IT to implement tooling for data discovery, classification, and DLP, and to enforce regulatory and customer data obligations at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering, data security, or data architecture, with a track record of owning enterprise-scale data protection work end-to-end.
• Hands-on experience implementing and running data discovery/classification, DLP, or comparable data protection tooling.
• Experience partnering across Legal/Privacy, Product, and Engineering to turn policy and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, DPIAs) into technical controls, particularly within a technology company and preferably in the cloud or SaaS space.
• Strong grounding in system and data architecture, data modeling, and the secure handling of data across its lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to design and influence security architecture at scale, balancing risk, usability, and business velocity.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of building buy-in across technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical security strategy across key data domains including data security, metadata management, data architecture, and data quality, as well as securing data across the entirety of its lifecycle
• Embed data security into system design and adoption, partnering with Product, Engineering, Business Systems, Finance, and IT to ensure new products, technologies, and workflows are implemented securely from the outset
• Identify, implement, and own the tooling that protects sensitive data at an enterprise level, including data discovery and inventory, and data loss prevention (DLP)
• Harden and configure corporate systems across IT, Analytics, and Business Systems platforms to reduce the risk of overly permissive access and poor data quality
• Assess and mitigate data-related risks in close partnership with the system and data owners who run Fastly's corporate platforms
• Serve as the technical bridge between Fastly's data governance and privacy policies and the engineering reality of enforcing them at scale
• Continuously improve data security posture by evaluating emerging threats, technologies, and architectural patterns

Skills

Security engineering

Data security

Data architecture

Regulatory compliance

Cloud/SaaS experience

Communication skills

Tools

Data discovery tools

DLP tooling

Job description

Fastly is seeking a Senior Data Security Architect to serve as the technical authority on protecting sensitive data across corporate and production systems. You will translate governance requirements into robust controls embedded in systems and pipelines touching our most sensitive data.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, and IT to implement tooling for data discovery, classification, and DLP, and to enforce regulatory and customer data obligations at scale.