Staff Software Engineer - Security Data Services

Denver, CO

Applications have closed

Fastly, Inc.

Fastly's edge cloud platform delivers faster, safer, and more scalable sites and apps to customers. Elevate your edge CDN, video delivery, security, and more.

View company page

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.

Staff Software Engineer - Security Data Services

The Security Data Services team is responsible for developing, supporting, and operating the software, systems & infrastructure that Fastly’s security products are built on top of. We are looking for an engineer who is interested in the space at the intersection of security & data to join the team. As a Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for leading project implementations, collaborating with others, and growing/adapting systems to the needs of the business.

What You'll Do

  • Developing and maintaining the software and systems that ingest, manage, and process the data that powers Fastly's security products
  • Partnering with others in both the local team and across Fastly to deliver larger, cross-team projects on time; scaling out large data systems to meet the growing needs of Fastly and it's customers
  • Using infrastructure as code and configuration management systems to run the software you develop
  • Anticipate the reliability, scalability, and performance needs of our systems
  • Create and maintain dashboards and alerts to monitor our services
  • Be part of the on-call & support rotation we share
  • Helping to establish the practice of using SLOs to guide decisions and priorities

Work Hours: 

  • This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional evenings and weekends as required for on-call support rotation.

What We're Looking For

Basic Qualifications:

  • Understanding of the challenges involved in operating and evolving scalable and reliable data storage systems of multiple types
  • A thoughtful and empathetic approach to design and implementation
  • Experience programming in Go and Kotlin or similar languages
  • Knowledge of one or more relational and non-relational storage systems (MongoDB, MySQL, BigQuery, BigTable, etc.)
  • Experience with container technology, Kubernetes/Docker/Helm, or similar
  • Experience with metric collection and monitoring tools like Prometheus or services like DataDog

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with Fastly’s products and services
  • Experience working with infrastructure as code like Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet
  • Experience with message queues such as Google Pub/Sub, NSQ, Kafka, Kinesis
  • Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements

This position is based out of Fastly’s Denver, Colorado office. Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

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

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $166,360 to $244,640.

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 support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), company paid holidays, paid time off and paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.

COVID Travel Policy

Fastly is committed to safeguarding the health and well-being of our employees. Therefore, new hires may be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 if the role requires business-related travel, in-person meetings, attending large events and working in an office location, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or if prohibited by local law.

Why Fastly?

  • We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

  • We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. 

  • We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.

  • We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901. 

Fastly collects and processes personal data submitted by job applicants in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please see our privacy notice for job applicants.

Tags: Agile Ansible Cloud Docker Elasticsearch GitHub Helm Kafka Kotlin Kubernetes MongoDB Monitoring MySQL Open Source Privacy Prometheus Puppet SLOs Terraform

Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Career development Equity Health care Insurance Medical leave Parental leave Salary bonus Startup environment Team events

Region: North America
Country: United States
Job stats:  6  0  0

More jobs like this

Explore more InfoSec / Cybersecurity career opportunities

Find even more open roles in Ethical Hacking, Pen Testing, Security Engineering, Threat Research, Vulnerability Management, Cryptography, Digital Forensics and Cyber Security in general - ordered by popularity of job title or skills, toolset and products used - below.