Senior Engineer - Security Products (Backend APIs)

Fastly
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Go","REST","OpenAPI","Terraform","CI/CD","AI"]

Senior backend software engineer focused on designing and delivering public-facing APIs and backend services for security products (WAF, DDoS, bot management). You will own API surfaces, collaborate cross-functionally, design for stability and scalability, and mentor others while participating in on-call rotations.

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2 months ago

Senior Engineer - Security Products (Backend APIs)

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Job Summary

Senior backend software engineer focused on designing and delivering public-facing APIs and backend services for security products (WAF, DDoS, bot management). You will own API surfaces, collaborate cross-functionally, design for stability and scalability, and mentor others while participating in on-call rotations.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, ship, and own public-facing APIs and backend services in Go from proposal through testing, rollout, and on-call support
  • •Use AI coding agents as part of your daily workflow
  • •Partner with frontend engineers, product managers, and security researchers to ship end-to-end customer experiences
  • •Turn ambiguous problems into well-defined technical plans that the team can execute
  • •Author design and architectural documents to drive alignment across engineering and product teams

Pay and Benefits

Salary: 181,220
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Hands-on experience designing and building reliable, large-scale backend systems with at least 5 years of relevant experience
  • •5+ years shipping production Go as your primary language
  • •3+ years on public APIs with external consumers and experience deprecating or evolving APIs
  • •Experience driving multi-week projects from design through post-launch
  • •Strong understanding of RESTful API design (resource modeling, versioning, idempotency, error semantics, pagination, OpenAPI)
Experience:5+ yearsSecurityCloudEdge computing
Skills:GoRESTOpenAPITerraformCI/CDAI
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoOpenAPIRESTTerraformCI/CDAI

Company Brief

Fastly
Provides an edge cloud platform and content delivery network (CDN) that enables fast, secure, and scalable delivery of web and streaming content, APIs, and applications with real-time configurability and observability.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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