Fastly's edge cloud platform enables customers to build digital experiences at the edge of the Internet.
The Security Products Console team owns the public-facing interface for Next-Gen WAF, DDoS protection, and Bot Management.
Responsibilities
Design, ship, and own public-facing APIs and backend services in Go, from design docs through implementation, testing, rollout, and on-call support.
Use AI coding agents as part of the daily workflow.
Partner with frontend engineers, product managers, and security researchers to ship end-to-end customer experience.
Turn ambiguous problems into well-defined technical plans.
Author design and architectural documents and drive alignment across teams.
Mentor and grow other engineers through code review, pairing, and technical leadership.
Participate in an on-call rotation.
Requirements
5+ years of relevant experience designing and building reliable, large-scale backend systems.
5+ years shipping production Go as primary language.
3+ years working on public APIs with external consumers, including breaking changes and deprecations.
Strong judgement on RESTful API design: resource modeling, versioning, idempotency, error semantics, pagination, OpenAPI.
Experience with testing and observability.
Daily use of coding agents.
Nice to have: experience with security products (WAF, bot, DDoS, app security); auth at API scale (RBAC, OAuth, JWT, SAML).
Conditions
Hybrid model with strong preference for candidates near San Francisco or Denver offices; remote considered for exceptional candidates in US Pacific and Mountain time zones.
Core business hours in Pacific Time, occasional nights and weekends for on-call.
Estimated salary range $181,220 - $217,464, plus equity and discretionary bonus programs.
Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, family planning, mental health support, and insurance.