Key skills
PythonGoKubernetesVaultIdentity ManagementFastlyPerformance OptimizationLeadershipCollaboration
About this role
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. 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 while fostering a culture of technical rigor, operational excellence, and innovation.
Responsibilities:
- Define the long-term strategic vision and multi-year technical roadmap for the Platform Security domain, ensuring these investments align with Fastly’s overall business and security objectives
- Oversee and develop a high-performing team that includes engineers and principal-level individual contributors, focusing on organizational structure, talent development, and scaling team capabilities to meet future demand
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders using a product-owner mindset to define clear roadmaps and priorities
- Drive organizational-wide adoption of best practices for operational excellence, reliability, and security, establishing metrics and accountability across all platform services
- Clearly communicate the function’s strategy, progress, and risk profile to executive leadership and technical stakeholders across the company
- While you will not be expected to write code, you will need to leverage deep, related technical experience to succeed in this role
Requirements:
- 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
- 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