Senior Security Engineer

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.

Senior Security Engineer

Ready to level up your career in the exciting world of cybersecurity? Join our Security Detection and Response team and become the hero who safeguards our organization's digital fortress! We need someone like you, armed with technical prowess and a problem-solving mindset, to ensure our security tools are always one step ahead. We are looking for a senior individual with technical depth along with the expertise to optimize our alerting infrastructure and mentor team members in security incident response. You will need to be someone trusted to serve as incident commander in partnership with other SMEs and engineering leaders. 

By joining us, you'll play a vital role in providing our customers with unparalleled protection, as you work with cutting-edge tools and contribute to services built to exceed industry security standards. Get ready to make an impact, challenge yourself, and embark on an exhilarating journey where innovation meets security excellence.

What You'll Do

• Develop use cases for generating high-quality alerts and fine-tune the SIEM system to filter out irrelevant or noisy information
• Implement, support and maintain security systems and tools that will help our Detection and Response Program
• Triage security events initiated from tools and serve as a SME for tooling platforms during incidents
• Research security tools to determine the best solutions for the organization 
• Develop and uphold documentation for Incident Response Playbooks and Security Tooling processes
• Participate in an on-call rotation

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

What We're Looking For

Basic Qualifications:

• A minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s Degree; or 6 years with a Master’s Degree; or a Ph.D with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
• Experience using Splunk; developing, maintaining, and tuning Splunk content (detections, dashboards, alerts, etc.)
• Experience managing and configuring endpoint Security solutions, including Crowdstrike (as well as other EDR and AV solutions)
• Experience managing security in cloud platforms (ex: cloud security policy management)
• Experience leading security incidents of all levels 
• Familiarity with security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK 
• Familiarity with Linux Operating Systems

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

• Experience with threat hunting
• Experience with forensics

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements

Preferred locations for this position are:

• Culver City, CA
• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York, NY

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.  

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $155,370 to $194,210.

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.

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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