Senior Data Security Architect

<div class="content-intro"><p>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 GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.</p> <p>We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.</p></div><p><strong>Posting Open Date: </strong>July 27th, 2026</p> <p><strong>Anticipated Posting Close Date*:</strong> September&nbsp; 30th, 2026</p> <p><em>*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Senior Data Security Architect</strong></p> <p>As the Senior Data Security Architect, you will be Fastly's technical authority on protecting sensitive data across our corporate and production systems. Your goal is to translate our data governance requirements into technical controls that are built directly into the systems and pipelines that touch our most sensitive data. You'll partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, and System Owners (e.g. IT, Analytics, Business Systems, Finance) across Fastly to design and implement tooling to enforce our data requirements and meet our regulatory and customer data obligations. Fastly believes that protecting the data entrusted to us is everyone's responsibility, and you'll give the rest of the organization the tools and technical guidance to live up to that.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define and drive technical security strategy across key data domains including data security, metadata management, data architecture, and data quality, as well as securing data across the entirety of its lifecycle&nbsp;</li> <li>Embed data security into system design and adoption, partnering with Product, Engineering, Business Systems, Finance, and IT to ensure new products, technologies, and workflows are implemented securely from the outs