Senior Software Engineer, Platform Security
Denver · New York City, NY · San Francisco · USD 181,220-217,464 · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 7, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Denver · New York City, NY · San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 181,220-217,464
About the role
- Fastly is seeking a Senior Engineer to represent our Platform Security team, with a specialized focus on Trust and Identity infrastructure.
- This is a high-impact individual contributor role for a technically exceptional engineer with deep experience in secure platform services at incredible scale.
Responsibilities
- Work alongside peers to define the long-term vision for trust and identity infrastructure and translate it into tangible execution plans aligned with business goals
- Design and implement scalable internal trust solutions such as secrets management, PKI, and authentication services
- Tackle ambiguous, technically demanding initiatives with multiple stakeholders and organization-wide impact
- Partner deeply with Product, Security, Compliance, and other Engineering teams
- Proactively identify potential situations that could negatively affect the business or customers and develop strategies to mitigate these risks before they escalate
- Establish and evangelize technical standards, code quality, reliability, and operational maturity
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a technical capacity as an individual contributor
- Strong systems engineering background with deep experience in Linux, networking, and distributed systems
- 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
- 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
Preferred qualifications
- Implementing zero-trust architectures or identity-aware access proxies
- Designing scalable secrets lifecycle management workflows
- Working with PKI and certificate automation at scale
- Contributing to open source identity or security tooling
- Experience in cutting edge technologies (e.g. SPIFE/SPIRE, modern PAM tooling)
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Family planning
- mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program
- Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
- Flexible Vacation policy
- up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
- 401(k) (including company match)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- 12 paid local holidays
- 12 paid company wellness days
Workplace
- This position is also open to Hybrid And Remote Work Locations.
- There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US.
- This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
Skills
- Go
- Python
- Rust
- Terraform
- Vault
- Consul
- Chef
- Linux
- LDAP
