Senior Security Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and advance the enterprise security architecture for Fastly’s corporate IT and business systems, ensuring scalable and risk-aligned protection in a modern SaaS-first environment.

• Define and implement a technical security strategy across essential domains such as endpoint security, identity and access management, MDM, data protection, SaaS, remote access, and collaboration platforms.

• Serve as the security architecture lead for critical business platforms (e.g., ERP, CRM, analytics), ensuring secure design, configuration, and ongoing risk management.

• Integrate security into system design and adoption by collaborating with IT and business teams to guarantee that new technologies and workflows are securely implemented from the beginning.

• Lead risk-based security assessments across infrastructure and applications, identifying significant threats, control gaps, and practical mitigation strategies.

• Convert risk into actionable steps by defining clear, prioritized security controls and collaborating with system owners and leadership to facilitate implementation.

• Establish and uphold secure configuration standards and design patterns for enterprise tools (e.g., productivity suites, collaboration platforms, AI tools), ensuring consistent and scalable security practices.

• Offer architectural guidance and advisory support to senior leaders and technical teams regarding high-risk or high-impact initiatives.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with IT, Engineering, Legal, and business stakeholders to align security with operational and business objectives.

• Continuously enhance security posture by assessing emerging threats, technologies, and architectural patterns.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years of experience in security architecture, engineering, or risk-focused roles.

• Demonstrated capability to design and influence security architecture at scale, balancing risk, usability, and business velocity.

• Strong experience in identifying and prioritizing risks—the ability to filter out noise and concentrate on what truly matters.

• Ability to translate complex technical risks into clear business impacts, influencing both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proven history of achieving security outcomes through collaboration rather than just authority.

• Experience in transforming security policies and standards into practical, deployable architectures and controls.

• Familiarity with contemporary security frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF) and expertise in core security domains (e.g., Identity and Access Management, Endpoint Security, Data Protection), with the ability to apply them effectively.

• Experience securing SaaS platforms and enterprise applications (e.g., ERP, CRM, collaboration tools), including configuration hardening and access models.

• Understanding of third-party risk and vendor security assessments, including how to evaluate and mitigate external risk.

• Strong systems thinking and the ability to navigate through ambiguity, scale, and organizational boundaries.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Family planning.

• Mental health support.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident).

• A flexible vacation policy.

• Up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave.

• 401(k) (including company match).

• Employee Stock Purchase Program.

• 12 paid local holidays.

• 12 paid company wellness days.