Desired Skills and Experience

  • Designing security features and engineering security solutions for Fastly services
  • Performing penetration tests and security reviews for core applications and APIs
  • Hunting for security flaws in the software powering the Fastly edge
  • Developing custom tools to test, monitor and enforce security across our applications
  • Researching security vulnerability disclosures and design and propose appropriate mitigations
  • Experience building and managing a team of deeply technical application security architects and engineers
  • Be passionate about security and protecting our customers
  • Be knowledgeable on the topics of secure development lifecycle, threat modeling, and web application security assessments
  • Experience applying security engineering practices
  • Be knowledgeable on a variety of security testing methodologies, including fuzzing and source code analysis and web application vulnerabilities and attack methods including CSRF, XSS, SQL injection, etc.
  • Experience with secure networking best practices
  • Experience with high throughput real-time systems and/or content delivery networks preferred
  • Strong multi-tasking abilities with attention to detail and the ability to dive deeply into issues
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills, experience presenting complex ideas
  • Excellent ability to build relationships with customers, security engineers and researchers