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Senior Software Engineer (Platform Security)

Fastly

Skills

Required

  • Privileged Access Management / workload identity management / LDAP / secrets management / trust systems
  • modern programming languages
  • Go
  • Python
  • Rust
  • infrastructure tooling
  • Terraform
  • Vault
  • Chef
  • systems engineering
  • Linux

Preferred

  • open source identity or
  • security tooling
  • SPIFE / SPIRE
  • modern PAM tooling
  • PKI
  • certificate automation

Join Fastly as a Senior Software Engineer focused on Platform Security. In this high-impact role, you will drive the execution of initiatives foundational to Fastly’s internal authentication, identity, and access control systems. You will design and implement scalable internal trust solutions, tackle complex challenges, and promote engineering excellence. Enjoy benefits such as generous parental leave, health and wellness coverage, retirement plans, and opportunities for continuous learning and growth.

Conduire l'exécution d'initiatives fondamentales pour les systèmes internes d'authentification, d'identité et de contrôle d'accès de Fastly.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborer avec des pairs pour définir la vision à long terme de l'infrastructure de confiance et d'identité et la traduire en plans d'exécution tangibles.
  • Concevoir et mettre en œuvre des solutions de confiance internes évolutives telles que la gestion des secrets, PKI et les services d'authentification.
  • A collaborative mindset with experience working across cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of respect, knowledge sharing and innovation influencing technical decisions at the org level
  • Implementing zero-trust architectures or identity-aware access proxies
  • Working with PKI and certificate automation at scale

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in a technical capacity as an individual contributorTeam player in areas such as Privileged Access Management, workload identity management, LDAP, secrets management, or trust systems

Passionate about demos, feedback-driven work

  • Demonstrated expertise in modern programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust) and infrastructure tooling (e.g., Terraform, Vault, Consul, Chef)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts for varying audiences and produce clear and comprehensive documentation
  • Strong systems engineering background with deep experience in Linux, networking, and distributed systems
  • Designing scalable secrets lifecycle management workflows

Preferred

  • Contributing to open source identity or security tooling
  • Experience in cutting edge technologies (e.g. SPIFE/SPIRE, modern PAM tooling)

Pay

USD 181,220 - 217,464

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