Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p>
<p>We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.</p></div><p><strong>Posting Open Date: </strong><strong><span data-rich-links="{"dat_df":{"fres_frt":1,"dfie_ts":{"tv":{"tv_s":1764590400,"tv_n":0}},"dfie_l":"en","dfie_p":{"fres_frt":0,"tres_tv":"MMM d, y"},"dfie_dt":"Dec 1, 2025","dfie_pt":3,"dfie_tpt":0,"dfie_tzi":""},"type":"date"}">Dec 1, 2025</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Anticipated Posting Close Date*: </strong><strong><span data-rich-links="{"dat_df":{"fres_frt":1,"dfie_ts":{"tv":{"tv_s":1766145600,"tv_n":0}},"dfie_l":"en","dfie_p":{"fres_frt":0,"tres_tv":"MMM d, y"},"dfie_dt":"Dec 19, 2025","dfie_pt":3,"dfie_tpt":0,"dfie_tzi":""},"type":"date"}">Dec 19, 2025</span></strong></p>
<p><em>*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.</em><em><br><br></em></p>
<p><strong>Engineering Director, Platform Trust Growth </strong></p>
<p>We’re looking for a dynamic and strategic leader to head our Trust Growth Platform team, which unites customer identity and access management (CIAM) 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. While you won’t be hands-on in the code base, this role will require you to leverage a strong technical background in building tier-0 distributed systems. 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.</p>
<p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Define and drive the long-term strategy for the Trust Growth Platform, spanning identity, access, monetization of products and services, and customer growth capabilities</li>
<li>Lead the strategy and execution of next-generation Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) frameworks, ensuring customers can securely and flexibly manage access across products, APIs, and services</li>
<li>Drive development of scalable customer identity and access management (CIAM) systems that power seamless sign-up, authentication, authorization, and lifecycle management experiences</li>
<li>Oversee platform evolution to support fine-grained permissions models, role hierarchies, and delegated administration, balancing usability with security best practices</li>
<li>Advance and broaden user protection on our platform from threats like fraud and abuse </li>
<li>Partner with product, finance, and go-to-market leaders to align monetization systems with customer identity and access roadmaps</li>
<li>Be deeply involved in understanding and operationalizing revenue and pricing models for existing and new product and market launches</li>
<li>Collaborate with Compliance and Security organizations to ensure Data at Fastly is protected and verifiable</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What We're Looking For: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>5+ years leading tier-0 distributed systems engineering teams managing engineers at all career levels.</li>
<li>10+ years of domain relevant software engineering experience - i.e. backend distributed systems focus with expertise in modern programming languages and tooling (the team works mostly in Golang).</li>
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