Fastly
SeniorManager,Engineering-PlatformSecurity
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“Senior Manager, Engineering - Platform Security at Fastly. Skills: Platform Security, technical leadership, technical vision, strategic alignment, cross-organizational advancements, foundational infrastructure services. Define the long-term strategic vision and multi-year technical roadmap for the Platform Security domain. Oversee and develop a high-performing team”
What You'll Achieve.
scale the technical leadership across multiple engineering projects; foster a culture of technical rigor, operational excellence, and innovation; moving beyond single-team execution to driving cross-organizational advancements; ensuring these investments align with Fastly’s overall business and security objectives; scaling team capabilities to meet future demand; establishing metrics and accountability across all platform services
Industry & Context.
available during core business hours, occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support any on-call coverage, travel as required by your role or requested by your manager
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years of experience managing Platform or Site Reliability Engineering teams, 10+ years of related technical experience with distributed systems and infrastructure as code, Demonstrated ability to drive a durable technical roadmap and facilitate effective collaboration in cross-functional teams, Experience with secrets and workload identity management, including using tools like SPIFFE, SPIRE, HashiCorp Vault, etc., Experience building and automating large scale production infrastructure in public cloud and on-prem environments, Using TFE or similar technologies, Extensive hands on experience working in a Linux environment with a solid understanding of system internals and performance optimization
Nice to Have
Experience with Kubernetes, PKI, and configuration management tools like Chef, Proficiency in Python or Go, Migrating physical or cloud-based workloads to new hosting platforms, Experience collaborating with compliance/security teams
What You'll Do.
Define the long-term strategic vision and multi-year technical roadmap for the Platform Security domain
Oversee and develop a high-performing team
Drive organizational-wide adoption of best practices for operational excellence
Establish metrics and accountability across all platform services
Clearly communicate the function’s strategy
and risk profile to executive leadership and technical stakeholders
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders using a product-owner mindset to define clear roadmaps and priorities; facilitate effective collaboration in cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Clearly communicate the function’s strategy, progress, and risk profile to executive leadership and technical stakeholders
Process & Methodology
Define clear roadmaps and priorities
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: May 11, 2026 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: May 29, 2026 *Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants. Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Security The Platform Security function at Fastly plays a critical role in maintaining and evolving the platform that powers a significant portion of internet traffic worldwide. This function delivers tooling and PKI solutions across a global network that spans six continents and boasts over 353 terabits per second of connected capacity. As the Senior Engineering Manager of the Platform Security team, you will oversee and scale the technical leadership across multiple engineering projects responsible for foundational infrastructure services. You will be responsible for defining the multi-year technical vision and ensuring strategic alignment with executive leadership. You will foster a culture of technical rigor, operational excellence, and innovation across the entire platform domain, moving beyond single-team execution to driving cross-organizational advancements. This is not a traditional "keep the lights on" operational role. Reliability is critical, but the real focus here is on innovation—driving strategic improvements, building foundational infrastructure for the future, and shaping how secure orchestration and trust services evolve at Fastly and beyond. What You'll Do
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