Senior Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering (Trust and Identity infrastructure)

Senior Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering (Trust and Identity Infrastructure)

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.

Fastly is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to represent our Platform Engineering organization, with a specialized focus on Trust and Identity infrastructure. This is an individual-contributor role for a technically exceptional engineer with deep experience in building secure platform systems.

You will report directly to senior leadership and drive the execution of initiatives foundational to Fastly's internal authentication, identity, and access control systems. This is a hands-on engineering leadership position, ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex problems, guiding architecture, and mentoring senior engineers—while keeping systems secure, scalable, and resilient.

What You'll Do

• Drive strategy & execution : define the long-term vision for trust and identity infrastructure and translate it into tangible execution plans aligned with business goals.
• Lead full-lifecycle architecture & delivery : design and implement scalable internal trust solutions such as secrets management, PKI, and authentication services.
• Own complex challenges : tackle ambiguous, technically demanding initiatives with multiple stakeholders and organization-wide impact.
• Cross-functional leadership : partner deeply with Product, Security, Compliance, and other Engineering teams.
• Impact management : proactively identify potential situations that could negatively affect the business or customers and develop strategies to mitigate these risks before they escalated.
• Promote engineering excellence : establish and evangelize technical standards, code quality, reliability, and operational maturity.
• Mentor and support the professional growth of engineers, fostering a culture of respect, knowledge sharing, innovation, and collaboration within the team.

What We're Looking For

Preferred Experience

Location and Travel

Preferred office locations : New York, NY. Hybrid model with in-office and remote work is supported. Travel to San Francisco, CA or other office locations may be required as needed.

Work Hours

This position requires core business hours availability and occasional nights and weekends as required for on-call rotation.

EEO & Diversity 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, please contact your Recruiter or the Fastly Employee Relations team.

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