Security Operations Engineer

Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand. Founded in 2011, Fastly powers online destinations including Airbnb, GitHub, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, and The New York Times.

The worldwide cloud services market is projected to grow rapidly to $236 billion in 2020, according to Forrester, Inc. As more and more businesses move operations to the cloud, Fastly is well positioned to continue increasing CDN, cloud networking and cloud security market share with edge cloud services that reach beyond content delivery.

We’re building a better Internet. Come join us. 

SECURITY OPERATIONS ENGINEER

As an Security Operations Engineer at Fastly, you will help ensure we provide a secure edge for one of the biggest online platforms in the world, handling massive amounts of traffic at very low latency. We value versatile engineers at all levels of seniority who enjoy being deeply involved in all aspects of building and securing our platform.

We are looking for Security Operations Engineers with interest in integrating and operating new and existing security tools on the Fastly platform. You will help evolve the security monitoring and response capabilities that keep our services secure.

This is a role which has 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

  • Write tools to automate maintenance and deployment of machines, services, and applications
  • Integrate monitoring, static, and dynamic analysis tools into configuration management process system, continuous integration, and deployment systems
  • Monitor and operate infrastructure to enable reliable and rapid deployment, effective monitoring, and resilient operation in a large-scale Linux environment
  • Develop tooling to integrate data from third parties to improve and enrich security monitoring capabilities
  • Proactively looks for ways to improve the overall security posture of the company
  • Collaborate with other teams in the company to gather feedback and concerns; analyze and propose solutions

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 some of the following and an interest in learning more about the rest:

  • Attention to detail and a desire to automate repeated tasks
  • Ability to support and improve tools written in various languages such as Go, Python, and Ruby
  • Experience with automation/configuration management tools such as Chef or Puppet
  • Working knowledge of Git and Github
  • Familiarity with configuration management, continuous integration, deployment and delivery
  • Experience with creating PoC code based on an idea and carry through on the implementation
  • Experience working with at least one of the major public cloud infrastructures; Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure
  • We highly desire tangible experience deploying and managing security controls within high performing and highly available distributed systems
  • Experience with pub/sub style message queues such as NSQ, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, Kinesis
  • Expertise in building security monitoring infrastructure or threat hunting tooling
  • Participate in our on-call rotations and blameless retrospectives and proactively contribute to evolving them

Why Fastly?

  • We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Our customers have a tremendous user base, and we support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their hearts 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. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is part of our DNA.
  • 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, like generous parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
  • 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’re passionate about.

Fastly provides equal employment opportunity without regard to an applicant’s race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status. 

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Fastly. Please inform us if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.