Vice President of Engineering, Security Products

Fastly Job Posting Template

Posting Open Date: November 1st, 2024

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: January 4th, 2024

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Vice President of Engineering, Security Products

US - East (remote) (strong preference to be based within the East Coast; SF/Denver encouraged to apply)

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. The Fastly 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.

Fastly seeks a Vice President of Engineering, Security Products to join our team. This team is responsible for building out our suite of security products, including our WAF, Bot Management, and anti-DDoS products.

We are looking for a dynamic senior leader to drive the next phase of growth and innovation for this business. This role plays a critical cross-functional leadership role across the company in establishing the vision, strategy, and leading the execution of technology initiatives supporting the growth of the business.

Leadership at Fastly is a combination of service and transformation. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Engineering (SVP), you’ll ensure everyone in your organization has the skills, direction, and information needed to successfully lead cross-functional teams delivering business outcomes through technology development activities.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a team of skilled engineers and security researchers.

• Take ownership of the end-to-end development of our existing security products as well as creating novel and innovative products to grow our security portfolio.

• Collaborate closely and build consensus with colleagues in engineering, but equally importantly, with partners in the product and services teams. Being a great team player is critical to the success of this role.

• Advise on, contribute to, and drive the technical vision and strategy at Fastly, especially with regard to security.

• Ensure adherence to best practices in secure software development, risk management, and incident response.

• Collaborate with executive leadership: provide expertise and guidance on projects, operations, and systems. 

• Foster a culture of security-first thinking and technical rigor across all engineering teams.

• Drive the architectural and technical direction of security-related projects, ensuring they are built for scale, resilience, and efficiency.

What We’re Looking For

• Expertise leading and managing security product engineering teams.

• Experience building exceptional diverse and inclusive teams. 

• 15+ years of experience in software development, with preferably at least 10 years in building security products. This role requires significant technical depth and breadth.

• Proven experience building consensus across large organizations for your ideas and those of your peers; ability to both influence and get things done within your team as well as cross-functionally across the organization.

• Strong internal and external communication skills; experience working with a variety of business functions.

• Experience using data and evidence based decision frameworks to drive strategy.

• High emotional intelligence, adaptable, and comfortable with change.

• Strong understanding of security principles, methodologies, and technologies, along with experience in building scalable systems.

• Demonstrated ability to manage and scale engineering teams effectively, with a focus on technical excellence.

Work Hours

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

Work Location & Travel Requirements

This position is open to the following preferred locations:

• New York 

• Denver

• San Francisco

• Remote (US)

Fastly uses a hybrid or remote model. Hybrid employees (within commute distance of an office) typically work in the office 2-4 days a week.

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $310,580 to $388,220. 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. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly, participate in hands-on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand. 

• 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 candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901. Fastly collects and processes personal data submitted by job applicants in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please see our privacy notice for job applicants.