Senior Platform Security Engineer - Trust & Identity

Fastly, Inc.; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Family planning

Mental health support

Employee Assistance Program

Life, Disability, and Accident保险

Flexible vacation

Paid sick leave (up to 18 days)

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Paid holidays

Wellness days

Job summary

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Platform Security to drive trust and identity infrastructure at scale. This high-impact IC role focuses on secure internal authentication, access control, and resilience while shaping internal architecture for years to come.

Responsibilities include defining long-term vision with Product/Security teams, designing scalable trust solutions, and mentoring through engineering excellence and documentation. Hybrid/remote options across the US.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a technical capacity as an individual contributor.
• Experience in Privileged Access Management, workload identity management, LDAP, secrets management, or trust systems.
• Strong systems engineering background with Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
• Proficient in modern programming languages (Go/Python/Rust) and infrastructure tooling (Terraform/Vault/Consul/Chef).
• Excellent written and verbal communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision for trust and identity infrastructure and translate it into execution plans.
• Design and implement scalable internal trust solutions such as secrets management, PKI, and authentication services.
• Own complex, ambiguous initiatives with multiple stakeholders and organization-wide impact.
• Promote engineering excellence through standards, reliability, and operational maturity.

Skills

Privileged Access Management

workload identity management

LDAP

secrets management

trust systems

Linux

networking

distributed systems

Go

Python

Rust

Terraform

Vault

Consul

Chef

communication

Tools

Go

Python

Rust

Terraform

Vault

Consul

Chef

Job description

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Platform Security to drive trust and identity infrastructure at scale. This high-impact IC role focuses on secure internal authentication, access control, and resilience while shaping internal architecture for years to come.

Responsibilities include defining long-term vision with Product/Security teams, designing scalable trust solutions, and mentoring through engineering excellence and documentation. Hybrid/remote options across the US.