Staff Systems Engineer, Fastly
Public Key Infrastructure
$195.7-244.6k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.
More information about location
Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$195.7-244.6k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- You have a minimum of 6 years of experience with systems engineering with at least 3 of those years focused on PKI or security
- You have 6 years of experience implementing and maintaining distributed systems on Linux, including automated configuration and deployment, and continuous monitoring and alerting
- Experience operating and scaling systems built on ephemeral, containerized microservices
- Experience with applied cryptography and tools like OpenSSL, CFSSL, or LibreSSL, and understanding of PKI architecture and standards such as RFC 5280
- Experience building and maintaining highly secure Linux environments, including system hardening, vulnerability detection and remediation, monitoring/alerting, and intrusion prevention and detection
- Experience with Hardware Security Module (HSM) configuration and operation
Desirable
- Experience with microservices, protocols like gRPC, bash scripting, debugging Go and Python, and also technologies in our tech stack: Linux, Docker, Hashicorp Vault, Chef, Splunk
- RDBMS administration (e.g. MySQL, MariaDB) experience in a high-availability production environment
- Comfortable working in a highly regulated environment (e.g. WebTrust, PCI)
- Experience operating a large-scale PKI
What the job involves
- As a PKI Systems Engineer, you will help build and operate Certainly, Fastly’s publicly-trusted TLS certification authority
- Working with cryptosystem specialists, along with site reliability engineers and others, you will implement systems to meet security objectives, reliability goals, and compliance requirements
- This is a role with a small and supportive team
- In addition to contributing to industry-leading security products and services, you’ll make sure our customers benefit from a service built to the highest security standards
- Deploy and manage a highly secure, distributed, fault tolerant Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- Work in partnership with our SRE, security, and product engineering teams to operate secure Fastly infrastructure (network, systems, applications, and business processes)
- Integrate open-source and licensed software into a modern system that emphasizes automation and resilience
- Design and evolve the environment and processes to exceed security, compliance, availability, and maintainability goals
- Work across the organization to meet compliance requirements
- Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 24 more jobs at Fastly