Fastly is seeking a Principal Platform Security Architect to help ensure the security of its edge cloud platform. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in security strategy, threat modeling, and secure design reviews. They will be responsible for shaping Fastly's overall security strategy, conducting architecture and design reviews, and leading the security design and oversight of Fastly's cloud infrastructure.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Proven leadership in security strategy, including influencing organizational direction, mentoring engineers on secure design principles, and embedding a security-first mindset across teams
- Extensive experience performing threat modeling and secure design reviews, translating identified risks into actionable security controls for both new and existing systems
- Experience designing and reviewing secure architectures for distributed, high-performance systems, ensuring resiliency, scalability, and adherence to security best practices
- Deep expertise across the full information security stack, with hands-on experience in security engineering or security research for large-scale production systems
- Proven ability to implement and manage cloud governance controls, such as AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs), IAM roles and permission boundaries, and GCP organization policies and constraints to meet security and compliance objectives
- Track record securing Kubernetes environments, including hardening multiple CNIs, integrating cloud-native runtime security tooling, and implementing container image scanning and compliance workflows
- Proven expertise in cloud and infrastructure security, including Kubernetes, Terraform Enterprise/Sentinel, Open Policy Agent (OPA), AWS, GCP, BGP, Anycast, and Secure Boot
- Advanced Linux administration experience at scale, including knowledge of intrusion and manipulation techniques, system hardening, process isolation, and security best practices
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of engaging with both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders to articulate risks, trade-offs, and security recommendations
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
- Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
- 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
- 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days
