Software Engineer - Bot Management and Anti-Fraud

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

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Software Engineer - Bot Management and Anti-Fraud

The Fastly Security Products Engineering develops and operates next generation security capabilities in the Fastly platform. We’re looking for a software engineer to develop and maintain our bot management products. You’ll work closely with other software engineers, product managers, and data scientists to implement new features and address real-world bot attacks. And help ensure our security products and systems are robust, scalable, and secure along the way.

The software you develop will power existing and future bot management and anti-fraud products. As part of the Security Products team, you will help us shape patterns, standards, and methodologies for the engineering team. If you’re passionate about developing innovative solutions to complex problems, and you thrive in a collaborative environment, we encourage you to apply for this role!

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain code in multiple programming languages (e.g. Rust, Go, Javascript/Typescript)
• Improve software development infrastructure used for development, testing and deployment of production systems
• Collaborate with software engineers, security operations staff, and data scientists to develop solutions to bot management problems
• Write clean, efficient, maintainable code
• Troubleshoot and debug issues with production code
• Collaborate with your teammates through code, design reviews and make data-driven decisions
• Participate in on-call rotation

What We're Looking For:

• You have at least 1 year of hands-on, professional experience developing production software in either Rust or Go and familiarity with the other 
• Desire and capability to learn and apply additional programming languages
• Experience developing tests and test automation
• Experience using and improving modern software development infrastructure (development environments, CI, testing, deployment)
• Good understanding of service-oriented architectures, microservices, and design patterns
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A great teammate with remote team experience: communicative, collaborative, empathetic

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

• Experience developing bot management or data collection technology, such as web client analytics
• Experience with developing or using anti-reverse-engineering technology
• Data privacy or information security expertise
• Experience with Android or iOS mobile application development
• Expertise in analysis and problem solving on large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with CDNs, proxies, or edge computing technology

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights & weekends as required for on-call support

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements

Preferred locations for this position are:

• New York, NY
• Denver, CO

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. We do not support relocation.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $133,200 to 166,500.

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 supp