Director, Engineering - Platform Trust & Growth

Denver, CO; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA

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 our customers’ applications as close to their end‑users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. 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 most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Anticipated Posting Close Date : Dec 19, 2025

We’re looking for a dynamic and strategic leader to head our Trust & Growth Platform team, which unites customer identity and access management (CIAM) with Growth engineering. This role is central to building the foundation of customer identity while unlocking scalable revenue opportunities. As Director, you’ll lead a high‑impact engineering organization—setting the vision for customer identity and access management while partnering across product and go‑to‑market teams to accelerate growth. While you won’t be hands‑on in the code base, this role will require you to leverage a strong technical background in building tier‑0 distributed systems. If you thrive at the intersection of platform engineering, customer experience, and business outcomes, this is your opportunity to shape the future of how our customers engage and grow with us.

What You’ll Do

Define and drive the long‑term strategy for the Trust & Growth Platform, spanning identity, access, monetization of products and services, and customer growth capabilities

Lead the strategy and execution of next‑generation Role‑Based Access Control (RBAC) frameworks, ensuring customers can securely and flexibly manage access across products, APIs, and services

Drive development of scalable customer identity and access management (CIAM) systems that power seamless sign‑up, authentication, authorization, and lifecycle management experiences

Oversee platform evolution to support fine‑grained permissions models, role hierarchies, and delegated administration, balancing usability with security best practices

Advance and broaden user protection on our platform from threats like fraud and abuse

Partner with product, finance, and go‑to‑market leaders to align monetization systems with customer identity and access roadmaps

Be deeply involved in understanding and operationalizing revenue and pricing models for existing and new product and market launches

Collaborate with Compliance and Security organizations to ensure Data at Fastly is protected and verifiable

What We’re Looking For

5+ years leading tier‑0 distributed systems engineering teams & managing engineers at all career levels.

10+ years of domain relevant software engineering experience—backend & distributed systems focus with expertise in modern programming languages and tooling (the team works mostly in Golang).

Proven track record of building and scaling distributed backend systems on platforms for identity, access management, payments, or monetization domains

Strong product and business orientation, with the ability to connect technical investments to revenue and growth outcomes

Experience fostering inclusive, collaborative, and high‑accountability engineering cultures

Excellent communication and cross‑functional leadership skills, with executive presence to influence at the C‑suite level

We’ll Be Super Impressed If You Have Experience In Any Of These

Leading large‑scale Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) initiatives

Designing and operating billing, payments, or revenue growth platforms at global scale

Driving convergence of trust / security platforms with monetization systems

Building platform capabilities that enable cross‑sell and upsell motions in SaaS businesses

Scaling engineering organizations through rapid growth and transformation phases

Prior experience evolving an authentication and authorization platform including Keycloak and Role‑based access control

Work Location

The preferred office locations for this position are :

New York, NY

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

There is a strong preference for hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider exceptionally qualified remote candidates within the US.

This position will require travel as requested by your manager.

Work Hours

This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as the on‑call escalation point.

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary and Equity

The estimated salary range for this position is $211,370 to $253,644.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non‑discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, family planning, mental health support, Employee Assistance Program, life, disability, accident insurance, a flexible vacation policy, up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave, 401(k) with company match, Employee Stock Purchase Program, 11 paid local holidays, and 11 paid company wellness days.

Why Fastly?

We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home‑base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN‑PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week‑long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly, participate in hands‑on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.

We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful—every day.

We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not “one size fits all.” Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply!

Equal Employment 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. Our 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. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed … contact your Recruiter or the Fastly Employee Relations team.

To apply, visit our official careers site :

www.fastly.com / about / careers .

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