Staff Software Engineer, Fastly

• We are looking for a versatile engineer with a software development background who enjoys being deeply involved in all aspects of building and operating our infrastructure
• Someone who will excel at improving our technology systems and processes, and will show an aptitude for solving complex issues
• You have a minimum of 6 years of experience with systems engineering with at least 3 of those years focused on software development
• 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 building and maintaining highly secure Linux environments, including system hardening, vulnerability detection and remediation, monitoring/alerting, and intrusion prevention and detection
• Experience with applied cryptography and tools like OpenSSL, CFSSL, or LibreSSL, and understanding of PKI architecture and standards such as RFC 5280 and RFC 8555 (ACME)

Desirable

• As a Certainly Software Engineer, you will be responsible for Certainly, Fastly’s publicly-trusted TLS certification authority
• Working with a small dedicated team, you will build and operate complex PKI systems to meet security objectives, reliability goals, and compliance requirements
• Certainly delivers widely trusted, short validity TLS certificates at scale to Fastly customers, helping to secure the internet. Certainly is built on open-source
• This team is responsible for understanding, configuring, maintaining, and enhancing the application and for building supporting infrastructure, logical and physical security, and compliance with strict industry standards
• Deploy and manage a highly secure, distributed, fault tolerant Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Work in partnership with our network, security, product engineering, and data center teams to operate secure Fastly infrastructure (network, systems, applications, hardware, and processes)
• Integrate open-source and licensed software into a modern architecture that emphasizes security, automation and resilience
• Design and evolve the environment and processes to exceed security, compliance, availability, and maintainability goals
• Solve challenging large scale engineering problems
• This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager

• Anticipated Posting Close Date: 1/6/2025