Staff Identity Platform Engineer — Hybrid/Remote

fastly; United States; Hybrid; USD 211,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Discretionary bonus

Health, dental, vision

Life & disability

401(k) with match

Employee stock purchase

Paid time off

Holidays & wellness days

Hybrid/remote US

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a staff software engineer on the Customer Identity and Access Management team to build centralized identity services for our edge cloud platform. You will lead the design and delivery of authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle capabilities as a technical anchor across workstreams.

You will mentor engineers, shape implementation plans with product and security partners, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability.

Qualifications

• Significant production experience designing and operating authentication and authorization systems.
• Deep understanding of identity and access standards and technologies (OIDC, OAuth, SAML, SCIM, JWT, and SSO).
• Experience with service-to-service authentication and secure communication patterns in distributed systems.
• Strong software architecture and system design across scalability, performance, reliability, and security.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership across multiple teams through architectural guidance and delivery of complex initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build secure, scalable identity services covering authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle, and related platform capabilities.
• Lead complex technical initiatives from design through production, balancing long-term architecture with practical delivery milestones.
• Act as technical lead for one or more core areas of the platform, guiding architecture, reviewing designs, and supporting sound technical decisions.
• Partner with engineering, product, and security counterparts to shape implementation plans, prioritize investments, and surface risks early.
• Translate ambiguous technical problems into incremental, high-quality solutions that hold a strong engineering bar.
• Champion modern, standards-based identity patterns and mentor engineers through design reviews and collaborative problem solving.
• Participate in on-call support rotation as needed to maintain reliability of identity services.

Skills

Authentication & authorization design

OIDC/OAuth/SAML/SCIM/JWT/SSO

Distributed systems security

Software architecture & system design

Technical leadership across teams

Communication skills

Keycloak experience

Tools

Go

Java

Ruby

Keycloak

Job description

Fastly is seeking a staff software engineer on the Customer Identity and Access Management team to build centralized identity services for our edge cloud platform. You will lead the design and delivery of authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle capabilities as a technical anchor across workstreams.

You will mentor engineers, shape implementation plans with product and security partners, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability.