Job Description
Title: Security Monitoring Engineer
Location: US (Remote)
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 Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.
We’re building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
Security Monitoring Engineer
We are looking for a Security Monitoring Engineer to join the Security Assurance & Response Team who will be responsible for helping to ensure we provide a secure edge for one of the biggest online platforms in the world.
You will be responsible for ensuring proper security monitoring is in place, and responding to security events. You will also design, follow, and test security alerts and runbooks while learning new technologies and evolving the security monitoring and response capabilities that keep our services secure.
You will be supported by a friendly security team, where you can learn and develop. We check our egos at the door. You’ll make sure our customers benefit from services built to the highest security standards in the industry.
What You’ll Do
- Define and analyze security telemetry, ensuring that monitoring and alerting have appropriate coverage and capability
- Produce accurate and actionable threat detection rules for both host and network-based threats
- Drive improvements in Security tooling including: strategy, tuning, correlation, alerting, and reporting
- Participate in on-call rotations and blameless retrospectives
- Execute security incident response investigations as IMOC or as SME
- Respond to triaged security alerts and incidents
What We’re Looking For
- Attention to detail and a desire to automate repeated tasks
- Experience using Splunk as well as developing, maintaining, and tuning Splunk content (dashboards, alerts, etc.)
- Understanding of the Linux Operating System and Linux Kernel
- Experience in operating security monitoring infrastructure or threat hunting tools
- Experience leading security incidents of all levels
- Experience communicating technicals details across all levels of the organization
- Experience with cloud environments and technologies
We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. It would be an added bonus if you have experience in ANY of these:
- Experience planning, conducting and documenting threat hunting engagements and providing recommendations based on the findings
- Security certifications like GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, etc
In accordance with applicable law, Fastly’s minimum base pay for this role if hired in Colorado is $77,000 per year. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity plan. Final offer amount will be at the company’s sole discretion and determined by multiple factors, including years and depth of experience and expertise, location and other business considerations. Note that this role is available to candidates outside of Colorado and different minimum compensation may apply.
Fastly is proud to deliver a strong total rewards program to our employees. This role is eligible to participate in the following benefits:
- Health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
- Medical: Cigna or Kaiser available
- Retirement benefits and employer match
- Life Insurance (Basic and Voluntary Life)
- Short & Long Term Disability with a buy-up LTD option
- Voluntary Accident & Critical Illness benefits
- Flex Spending Accounts & Mass Transit benefits
- Open Vacation Policy
- Sick Time
- Generous leave benefits (medical, maternity, paternity, and personal)
- Paid wellness days
- Employee Assistance Program
- Learning & reimbursement program stipend
- Mobile and internet allowance
- Wellness stipend
- Pet insurance
Fastly reserves the right to amend or modify for any reasons in accordance with applicable law.
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 love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
- 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 like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
- 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!
Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
Employment decisions at Fastly are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability*, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Fastly encourages applicants from all backgrounds.
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