Senior Platform Security Engineer - Trust & Identity

Fastly, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Equity / Stock Purchase Program

Flexible vacation

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Platform Security to drive trust and identity infrastructure, scale internal auth, and secure access across services.

You will partner with Product, Security, Compliance, and other Engineering teams to design PKI, secrets management, and authentication services while promoting reliability and security.

This role supports hybrid or remote US locations with a competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a technical IC role focusing on trust and identity infrastructure.
• Strong Linux, networking and distributed systems background.
• Proficiency in Go, Python or Rust and infrastructure tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term vision for trust and identity infra and translate into execution plans.
• Design and implement scalable internal trust solutions (PKI, secrets management, authentication).
• Own complex, cross-functional initiatives with org-wide impact and reliability focus.
• Promote engineering standards, code quality, and operational maturity.

Skills

Platform security

Identity infrastructure

Go / Python / Rust

Distributed systems

Linux

Networking

Vault / Terraform / Consul / Chef

Demos / feedback-driven work

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Vault

Consul

Chef

Job description

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Platform Security to drive trust and identity infrastructure, scale internal auth, and secure access across services.

You will partner with Product, Security, Compliance, and other Engineering teams to design PKI, secrets management, and authentication services while promoting reliability and security.

This role supports hybrid or remote US locations with a competitive salary and benefits.