Senior Engineer - Security Products (Backend APIs)
Core
Design, ship, and own public-facing APIs and backend services for Fastly's Security Products Console, enabling customers to configure WAF, DDoS protection, and Bot Management.
Role type
Senior Backend Software Engineer (APIs)
Builds
Public APIs and backend services for security products (WAF, DDoS, Bot Management)
Domain
Cybersecurity / Edge Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, RESTful API design, public API management, system design, testing, observability, AI coding agents
Preferred skills
Security products (WAF, bot, DDoS), Auth at API scale (RBAC, OAuth, JWT, SAML)
Technologies
Go, Terraform, CI/CD, OpenAPI
Responsibilities
Design and implement backend services and APIs, partner with frontend and product teams, author architectural documents, mentor engineers, manage on-call rotation
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
