Director, Engineering - Platform Trust & Growth

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 GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue. We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us. Posting Open Date: Updated March 3, 2026 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: March 20, 2026 *Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants. Engineering Director, Platform Trust & Growth We’re looking for a dynamic and strategic leader to head our Trust & Growth Platform team, uniting Identity and access management (IAM) 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. 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, centering on robust identity, access, and customer growth capabilities Drive development of scalable customer identity and access management (CIAM) systems that power seamless sign-up, authentication, authorization, and lifecycle management experiences Lead the strategy and execution of next-generation Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) frameworks, enabling fine-grained permissions models, role hierarchies, and delegated administration across products, APIs, and services Advance and broaden user protection strategies to mitigate threats like fraud and abuse on the platform Leverage your background in Tier-0 distributed systems to guide the evolution of high-scale backend architecture 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 with a focus on backend distributed systems and modern tooling (mostly Golang) Proven track record of building and scaling distributed systems on platforms for identity, access management, payments, or monetization domains Strong product and business orientation, with the ability to connect technical investments directly to revenue and growth outcomes Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills, with executive presence to influence at the C-suite level Experience fostering inclusive, collaborative, and high-accountability engineering cultures We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these: Leading large-scale Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) initiatives Prior experience evolving an authentication and authorization platform including Keycloak and Role-based access control 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 Work Location: The preferred office locations for this position are: San Francisco, CA Denver, CO 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 Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Salary: 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 care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 12 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 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! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying. All job applications must be submitted through our official careers site at www.fastly.com/about/careers. 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