Senior Manager, Detection and Response

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.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Posting Open Date: July 30, 2024

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: September 30, 2024

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

We are looking for a Senior Manager to lead our Security Detection and Response team. In this role, you will build and scale our detection engineering program, mature our security incident response processes, and lead security incidents across the company. We are looking for a technical leader with a background in security engineering and incident response to support, develop, and empower a team of security engineers. You will bring a pragmatic and risk-driven approach to detection and response and prioritize automation. 

What You'll Do:

• Define and implement the vision for detection engineering, security incident response, and threat intelligence
• Mentor, grow, and support a team of security engineers and incident responders
• Develop and mature our security incident response processes, playbooks, and metrics
• Partner with engineering to implement security controls
• Lead the development of detections, tools, automations, and product integrations in support of detecting and responding to threats
• Serve as Incident Commander and lead security incidents for the company

What We're Looking For: 

• An empathetic and inclusive leader with experience in leading a team of security practitioners
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to effectively communicate security risks and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Technical understanding of attacker threats and exploitation techniques, and first-hand experience in investigating them
• Experience in serving as an Incident Commander or leading large, cross-functional security incidents
• Experience in securing, identifying threats, and responding to incidents in one major public cloud infrastructure, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, or Rust
• Experience in scaling a detection engineering program or building high-fidelity detections-as-code

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

• Expertise in utilizing Splunk to include investigating threats, developing metrics and dashboards, normalizing data feeds, and integrating with other tools
• Published security research or have spoken at community events on Detection & Response
• Familiarity with content delivery networks (CDN), edge cloud platforms, or other Fastly products and services

Work Hours: 

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours and support an escalation-tier on-call rotation

Work Locations & Travel Requirements: 

This position is open to Hybrid And Remote Work Locations.

The preferred locations for this position are:

• New York, NY
• San Francisco, CA
• 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 are willing to consider remote candidates in the United States.

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

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary: 

The estimated salary range for this position is $211,370 to $264,220.

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.