Fastly

Technology

SeniorCSOCEngineer

$175–250k ~AI est. San Francisco, California, United States; New York, New York, United States
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior CSOC Engineer at Fastly. Skills: Security Automation, SIEM, SOAR, AI/ML. Design internal security platform. Operate internal security platform”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Spot inefficiencies; Eliminate inefficiencies

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3 years building software, Proficiency in Python, JavaScript and/or Golang, Hands-on experience with Docker, Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Hands-on experience with cloud providers, Experience explaining technical trade-offs, Experience collaborating effectively, Experience guiding team members, Experience helping others grow, Ability to pick up new skills quickly, Ability to share learnings

Nice to Have

Building custom SIEM platform, Maintaining custom SIEM platform, Building custom SOAR platform, Maintaining custom SOAR platform, Deploying ML models in production, Operationalizing ML models in production, Deploying LLMs in production, Operationalizing LLMs in production, Experience with Event-driven architectures, Experience with message queues, Previous experience at CDN, Previous experience at cloud provider, Previous experience at high-traffic platforms, Working with geographically dispersed teams

What You'll Do.

Design internal security platform

Operate internal security platform

Evolve internal security platform

Write production-grade code

Understand analyst challenges

Develop automated workflows

Eliminate inefficiencies

Develop custom internal security platform

Refactor custom internal security platform

Partner with security analysts

Turn manual workflows into automated processes

Integrate AI/ML utilities

Operationalise AI/ML utilities

Assist analysts with threat investigation

Assist analysts with incident summarisation

Work with infrastructure in GCP

Use Kubernetes for orchestration

Use Terraform for resource management

Leverage monitoring tools

Leverage alerting tools

Detect failures early

Maintain high availability

Build API integrations

Connect detection tools

Connect ticketing systems

Connect customer environments

Champion code quality

Implement testing practices

Implement CI/CD pipelines

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Distributed team; Across time zones

Communication Scope

Explain technical trade-offs

Process & Methodology

Agile software development

Full Job Description

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. We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us. Posting Open Date: 06/08/2026 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 08/17/2026 *Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants. CSOC Engineer - Security Automation Fastly is seeking a Security Automation Engineer for our Customer Security Operations Center (CSOC) team, where you'll help design, operate, and evolve the internal security platform and tools that enable our Security Analysts to keep our customers safe. Day to day, you'll work across the entire stack of our bespoke SIEM and SOAR platform - designing systems, writing production-grade code, and shipping features that have a direct impact on how we protect our customers. You'll work closely with our Security Analysts to deeply understand their challenges, then develop automated security workflows that solve those problems, ensuring the right information is presented at the right time. You'll spot inefficiencies in how we detect and respond to security incidents, and build the tools to eliminate them. What You'll Do Design, develop, and refactor our custom internal security platform across both the backend (FastAPI) and frontend(React) Partner with security analysts to turn manual workflows into automated, reliable processes Integrate and operationalise AI/ML utilities (such as LLMs) into our security platform to assist analysts with threat investigation and incident summarisation. W

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