Compensation Overview

Staff Product Security Architect

As a Staff Product Security Architect at Fastly you will help ensure we provide a secure edge for one of the biggest online platforms in the world, handling extensive amounts of traffic at very low latency. Fastly’s Security Architecture Team fosters security throughout all areas of Fastly’s applications and infrastructure. Fastly believes that security is everyone’s responsibility and you will be empowering all of Fastly to live up to that responsibility. Qualified candidates will excel at analyzing the design of our software and implementations, and will show an aptitude for discovering complex security issues.

This position will be based in any of our following locations: New York, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles

This is a role which has a high impact on human lives. You will be supported by a friendly security team, where you can learn and develop. We check our egos at the door. You’ll make sure our customers benefit from a service built to the highest security standards in the industry. We pride ourselves in our involvement in the larger security community and encourage our team to present at network and security conferences and participate in the open source community. We are a distributed security team with the commitment and tools in place to make it work.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will enhance the security of Fastly’s network and infrastructure services products by working closely with engineering and product teams to integrate security into the design and development of Fastly systems.

• Perform security-focused architecture and design reviews of services, platform and infrastructure resources as part of Fastly’s security review process and coordinate with engineering teams to develop and integrate secure-by-design principles into engineering builds.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to identify security threats to Fastly’s infrastructure as part of the threat modeling process and define tactical and strategic mitigation plans to assist with remediation.
• Perform secure code and configuration reviews on services and infrastructure resources and provide recommendations that strengthen Fastly’s security posture.
• Influence product design paradigms to incorporate security best practices and drive requirements for security into the release cycle.
• Maintain a clear view of the overall product development roadmap and associated product lifecycle to ensure security is appropriately incorporated throughout.
• Become a domain expert in the content delivery network (CDN) and infrastructure product verticals and represent that knowledge with prospects, customers, and auditors.
• Research and understand new threats and attack vectors that impact Fastly and work with system owners to design appropriate prevention, detection and remediation initiatives.
• Involvement in Fasty’s Secure SDLC, focusing on both collaborative hands-on design work and training initiatives across the company.
• Influence Fastly’s security strategy by leveraging the collective strength of the security team and articulating the capabilities needed to effectively manage cyber threats.

What We’re Looking For

At Fastly we value a diversity of voices. The following is not a laundry list, but to be effective in this role you should possess most of the following and an interest in learning more about the rest:

Required Experience

• Have 5-7 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience designing secure architectures for reverse proxy and caching servers. 
• Extensive experience performing threat modeling, secure code reviews and designing security controls to mitigate vulnerabilities and deficiencies for new and existing cloud-based products.
• Working knowledge of how to design security controls for multi-tenant general compute services, reverse proxies, microservices architectures, containerization and modern API protocols.
• Experience with Linux administration at scale, associated intrusion/manipulation techniques, and standard methodologies for system hardening and process isolation.
• Strong grasp at all layers of the information security stack including hands-on security engineering.
• Strong understanding of certificate authorities, digital certificates and public key infrastructure and how they operate in a client - server environment.
• Working knowledge of  authorization, authentication and encryption strategies.

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Experience working with content delivery networks (CDN) or extensive experience with network protocol analysis.Contributions to the security industry (e.g. white papers and OSS projects)
• Working knowledge of compiler and runtime security.
• Hands-on experience performing penetration testing, particularly for web applications.
• Working knowledge of database security, especially for MySQL.

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: 

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• Culver City, CA
• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York, NY

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $181,220 to $226,520. 

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits: 

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a non-accrual vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2024, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.