Staff Product Security Architect - Remote
Fastly, Inc.About the role
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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Staff Product Security Architect
As a Staff Security Architect at Fastly you will help ensure we provide a secure edge for one of the biggest online platforms in the world, handling extensive amounts of traffic at very low latency. Fastly’s Security Architecture Team fosters security throughout all areas of Fastly’s applications and infrastructure. Fastly believes that security is everyone’s responsibility and you will be empowering all of Fastly to live up to that responsibility. Qualified candidates will excel at analyzing the design of our software and implementations, and will show an aptitude for discovering complex security issues.
This position will ideally be based in any of our following locations: New York, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles. We are willing to consider highly qualified remote candidates in other parts of the US.
This is a role which has a high impact on human lives. You will be supported by a friendly security team, where you can learn and develop. We check our egos at the door. You’ll make sure our customers benefit from a service built to the highest security standards in the industry. We pride ourselves in our involvement in the larger security community and encourage our team to present at network and security conferences and participate in the open source community. We are a distributed security team with the commitment and tools in place to make it work.
What You’ll Do
In this role, you will enhance the security of Fastly’s network, infrastructure and security products by working closely with engineering and product teams to integrate security into the design and development of Fastly products.
- Perform secure architecture and design reviews of cloud-based products (CDN, Web Application Firewall, Bot detection) and collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate secure-by-design principles into engineering builds.
- Conduct thorough security assessments of products developed by our network, infrastructure and security product lines to identify security threats to Fastly and define tactical and strategic mitigation plans to assist with remediation.
- Develop and implement robust security protocols and best practices to protect against security threats.
- Perform secure code and configuration reviews as part of the product development lifecycle and provide recommendations that strengthen Fastly’s security posture.
- Influence product design paradigms to incorporate security best practices and drive requirements for security into the release cycle.
- Maintain a clear view of the overall product development roadmap and associated product lifecycle to ensure security is appropriately incorporated throughout.
- Become a domain expert in the content delivery network (CDN), infrastructure and security products and represent that knowledge with prospects, customers, and auditors.
- Research and understand new threats and attack vectors that impact Fastly and work with product owners to design appropriate prevention, detection and remediation initiatives.
- Involvement in Fastly’s Secure SDLC, focusing on both collaborative hands-on design work and training initiatives across the company.
- Influence Fastly’s security strategy by leveraging the collective strength of the security team and articulating the capabilities needed to effectively manage cyber threats.
What We’re Looking For
At Fastly we value a diversity of voices. The following is not a laundry list, but to be effective in this role you should possess most of the following and an interest in learning more about the rest:
- 7+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Proven experience in securing multi-tenant general compute services, reverse proxies, cache servers, web application firewalls, Bot technologies and modern APIs.
- Extensive experience performing threat modeling, secure code reviews and designing controls to mitigate security threats for new and existing cloud-based products. Bonus for experience with security specific cloud products.
- Deep understanding of certificate authorities, digital certificates, pu
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