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About the Role
The Security Products Console team owns the public-facing interface for configuring Next-Gen WAF, DDoS protection, Bot Management, and future security products. Our APIs are critical for customers to manage security during active attacks, automate workflows, and adapt to the evolving threat landscape. This role involves shaping the future of our API surface as it scales for new product launches and a growing developer ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Design, ship, and own public-facing APIs and backend services in Go, from technical proposal and design docs through implementation, testing, production rollout, and on-call support.
- Utilize AI coding agents as part of the daily workflow.
- Partner with frontend engineers, product managers, and security researchers to ship the customer experience end-to-end.
- Transform ambiguous or broadly-scoped problems into well-defined technical plans for team execution.
- Author design and architectural documents to drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
- Collaborate with internal platform teams, product managers, and stakeholders to understand needs and deliver impactful solutions.
- Consider stability, performance, and scalability in designs and team guidance.
- Mentor and grow other engineers through code review, pairing, and technical leadership.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience designing and building reliable, large-scale backend systems.
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- 5+ years shipping production Go as the primary language.
- 3+ years on public APIs with external consumers, including experience with breaking changes and deprecation notices.
- Proven ability to drive projects end-to-end, from design doc through post-launch.
- Good judgment on RESTful API design principles (resource modeling, versioning, idempotency, error semantics, pagination, OpenAPI).
- Experience designing APIs with consideration for downstream users (customers, support engineers, frontend teammates).
- Experience with testing and observability as a means of subtraction, not addition.
- Comfort using coding agents as a daily driver.
Skills
- Go
- RESTful API design
- API versioning
- API idempotency
- API error semantics
- API pagination
- OpenAPI
- Testing
- Observability
- AI coding agents
- RBAC
- OAuth
- JWT
- SAML
Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Denver, CO, USA
- Remote (US Pacific and Mountain time zones)
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $181,220 - $217,464
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Family planning support
- Mental health support
- Employee Assistance Program
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Accident insurance
- Flexible Vacation policy
- 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
- 401(k) with company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- 11 paid local holidays (for 2026)
- 12 paid company wellness days (for 2026)
About the Company
- 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 applications as close to end-users as possible.
- 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 prominent companies.
- We're building a more trustworthy Internet.
- We have a huge impact; Fastly is a small company with a big reach, supporting a growing number of open source projects and initiatives.
- We value diversity and are committed to being a company where employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work.
- We are passionate and employ individuals with diverse interests and passions.
- We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team.
Equal Opportunity
- Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
- 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.
- Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws.