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Senior Manager - Detection Engineering
Senior Manager - Detection EngineeringFastly • San Francisco, CA, United States
Senior Manager - Detection Engineering

Senior Manager - Detection Engineering

Fastly • San Francisco, CA, United States
4 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Senior Manager - Detection Engineering

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.

Posting Dates

  • Open date : November 6, 2025
  • Close date : December 6, 2025

What You’ll Do

  • Shape and execute the long‑term strategy for detection engineering, security incident response, threat intelligence, and threat hunting.
  • Lead efforts to build detections, tools, automations, and integrations that strengthen our threat detection and response capabilities.
  • Mentor, grow, and support a team of security engineers.
  • Work with Fastly’s Incident Management team to improve our security incident response processes, playbooks, and metrics.
  • Partner with engineering to implement security controls.
  • Lead security incidents for the company.
  • What We’re Looking For

  • An empathetic and inclusive leader with experience in leading a team of security practitioners.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to effectively communicate security risks and recommendations to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
  • Technical understanding of attacker threats and exploitation techniques, and first‑hand experience in investigating them.
  • Experience in scaling a detection engineering program and building high‑fidelity detections‑as‑code.
  • Experience in serving as an Incident Commander or leading large, cross‑functional security incidents.
  • Experience in securing, identifying threats, and responding to incidents in one major public cloud infrastructure, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • 7‑10+ years of relevant experience; we are open to strong candidates with varying backgrounds who can demonstrate equivalent expertise and impact.
  • Super Impressed if You Have Experience in Any of These

  • Published security research or have spoken at community events on detection engineering or security incident response.
  • Familiarity with content delivery networks (CDN), edge cloud platforms, or other Fastly products and services.
  • Experience with Linux administration at scale, associated intrusion / manipulation techniques, and standard methodologies for system hardening and process isolation.
  • Work Hours

  • This position will require you to be available during core business hours and support an escalation‑tier on‑call rotation.
  • Location and Travel

  • Preferred offices : New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Denver, CO. Fastly embraces a largely hybrid model allowing employees flexibility to split time between the office and home.
  • Travel may be required as needed by your role or manager.
  • Salary

    Estimated range : $211,370 to $253,644. Eligibility for Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

    Benefits

    Medical, dental, and vision insurance; family planning and mental health support; 401(k) with company match; Employee Stock Purchase Program; 18 days of accrued paid sick leave; 11 paid local holidays; 11 paid company wellness days.

    Why Fastly?

  • 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. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.
  • EEO Statement

    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 to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and / or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501‑287‑4901.

    Fastly collects and processes personal data submitted by job applicants in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please see our privacy notice for job applicants.

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