Senior Security Support Analyst, Fastly
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2-3 days a week in office
Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- Strong interest in infosec and application security
- Working knowledge of core internet technologies like DNS, HTTP & TLS
- An understanding of the OSI model and able to explain potential exploit methods at each layer
- Software development knowledge in Go, Rust or Python
- Kubernetes or other orchestration platform experience
- Experience using Terraform or supporting a Terraform Provider
- Unix/Linux system administration
- Analysis with log visualization tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Looker, Splunk, Elastic/ELK, or others)
- Web/ Application server technologies and frameworks
- Cloud ecosystem knowledge & experience
- Experience troubleshooting WAF products
- Fluent spoken & written English required, adapting content for different audiences
- Experience interfacing with clients to address concerns or escalations; track and drive to close any issues that impact the service and its value to clients
- Proven ability to deliver exceptional customer experiences
What the job involves
- Leveraging our growing security product suite, the Senior Web Application Security Support contributes real world security insights to Fastly and our customers as we address Internet-scale threats
- In addition, this role provides the opportunity to help mentor the base analysts across the team’s responsibilities
- As Senior Web Application Security Support you will be an escalation point for our SOC analysts in our objective of being responsible for supporting Fastly security products, monitoring and analyzing customer activity, like identifying account-takeover, bot attacks , DDoS attacks and other malicious web traffic
- The focus will be around attacks at the application layer
- You will have the opportunity to work on some of the world’s most scalable distributed systems that handle around 10 million requests per second, as well as the world-class engineers who developed these systems
- Provide an outstanding response to customer security issues and support
- Provide an excellent customer experience
- Analyze web traffic and identify suspicious activity
- Triaging and responding to incoming tickets and proactively detected alerts
- Write, contribute to, and review security reports
- Manage security configurations for our customers
- New alert creations
- New attack mitigations
- Modification of existing controls
- Respond to tickets and alerts in accordance with established Service Level Agreements (SLAs)Contribute to the processes and policies that scale our organization as we grow
- Assist with the maintenance of existing runbooks
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Internet users around the world have come to expect personalized, real-time digital experiences, but delivering these quickly and securely, while maintaining quality, can be a difficult task for businesses.
Fastly enables the companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users — improving the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands, and enabling clients to focus on growing their businesses.
The company has helped several high-profile businesses, including Reddit, Pinterest, Stripe, EPIC Games, and more. Its offering is well-regarded in the space, demonstrated by it being named a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023 report.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2019
$40m
SERIES F
Jul 2018
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $259m
Company benefits
- Parental support and beyond: We support our families by offering generous time off for parental leave. And beyond that, we work hard to build a culture that allows for all employees to have the life outside work that they desire year round.
- Health and wellness: Your well-being matters here. Our health plans offer a variety of options, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, mental health resources, and more.
- Invest in your future: We offer 401(k)/retirement plans, employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP), and reimbursements for learning and development programs — so we can support your ongoing growth and success.
- Keep learning and growing: Helping people go further means nurturing their talent. Through annual reimbursements for employee learning activities, regular hangouts and advice from our Senior Staff, talks from industry leaders, and cultural events — we offer tons of opportunities for people to learn. And we’re always looking to grow as a company, too: we collect employee engagement and experience data annually and leverage our Employee Experience Champion Network to understand employee feedback, so we can keep improving.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kip Compton
(CEO)Kip joined the Fastly team in 2024 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2025. Prior to this, he was an SVP of Strategy & Business Development/Networking at Cisco.
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