Director, Security Operations

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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Director, Security Operations

As the Director for Security Operations, you will be the person chiefly responsible for defending Fastly from malicious attacks, ensuring we have the tools and skills to prevent those attacks from the outset and respond effectively when they occur. We are looking for a senior leader who gets things done, with the experience to lead our Vulnerability Management, Detection & Response, and Security Engineering teams. You’ve got skills to grow and mentor a skilled security team, and the ability to define and drive the overall defensive security strategy for the company. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and compliance to get alignment and implement that strategy.

What You'll Do:

• Serve as the leader of three teams focused on:
• Monitoring for suspicious activity, investigating, and responding appropriately
• Identification of security weaknesses and ensuring reasonable resolution timelines
• Building and maintaining systems that allow us to operate securely at scale
• Think strategically about security improvements across Fastly and oversee delivery
• Build relationships with other teams to influence positive security change; work with our security architecture, engineering, and compliance teams to understand risk and gaps and develop plans to address those gaps.
• Grow diverse teams and ensure the personal development of your team members; act as both coach and cheerleader for your teams
• Report directly to the Chief Information Security Officer and work with the CISO to shape Fastly security priorities
• Regularly evaluate our environment, capabilities and processes through table-top and real-world testing

What We're Looking For: 

• Proven track record of leading Detection and Response (D&R), CSIRT, Vulnerability Management, and Security Engineering.
• Experience leading company responses to large scale security attacks and compromises, and with the tools necessary to detect and respond to attacks.
• Experience building a mature, automated, and risk based vulnerability management program
• Someone who's been around the block a few times: 10+ years of experience in security, with a strong engineering background and 5 or more of those years spent in management roles. 
• Prior experience managing other managers, with an ability to inspire others and shape high-stakes outcomes. 
• Exceptional communications and writing skills, with the ability to articulate complex security topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong understanding of evolving cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors
• The ability to form strong partnerships with diverse company stakeholders, particularly fastly engineering leadership, to ensure security operations plans are effectively integrated into company roadmaps.
• A mix of cloud security and on-premise infrastructure security (we're both a cloud provider and a user of cloud services)
• Comfort in a multiple operating system environment. Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS, and Windows all live here

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

• A history of speaking at conferences
• Experience writing blog posts
• Actively contributing to open source projects 

Work Hours: 

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: 

This position is a Hybrid role and open to the following office locations: 

• New York, NY
• Denver, CO 
• San Francisco, CA
• Los Angeles, CA

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 near the preferred locations.

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

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $228,280 to $285,350.

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), an open vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2023, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days. 

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 [email protected] or 501-287-4901. 

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