Senior Engineer - Customer Identity Access Management (Ciam)

The Customer Identity Access Management team (CIAM) is responsible for building solutions that enable Fastly customers to securely collect, organize and manage their users' identities and profile data from one centralized place. We help our customers control their users' access to applications and services within their organization by offering seamless access control mechanisms, advanced authentication methods, progressive profiling, and a consolidated identity.

We are looking for highly motivated senior software engineers to join our team who have positive attitudes and are willing to be part of something special.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate in the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of the applications that involve the customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) systems and solutions

• Engage with engineers across the entire organization to leverage our authorization and authentication strategy and implementation.

• Take ownership of features from start to finish, facilitating review and discussion with peers and partners, and ensuring features as implemented meet product requirements

• Work in close partnership with your engineering leaders to build out and execute on everything from project design to engineering and security standards

• Participate in on-call rotation

What We're Looking For:

• Hands-on experience developing applications in Go and/or Ruby. Most Senior Engineers at Fastly have at least 5 years of relevant coding experience.

• Front end development experience with React and TypeScript

• Strong understanding of service-oriented architectures, microservices, and design patterns

• Familiarity with authentication standards and technologies such as JWT and OIDC

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and ability to produce quality documentation

• A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic

• You have experience working with teams distributed across different time zones

• Experience in Service-to-service communication

We'll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Hands-on experience with CIAM solutions such as SSO, SAML, OAuth and SCIM

• Microfrontend architecture

• Experience with Authorization frameworks for applications (preferred distributed systems)

• Experience in Security or building authentication and authorization products

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as required for the on call rotation.

Work Locations & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to candidates near any Fastly US office. Preferred locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York, USA

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. Relocation is not supported for this position.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary:

The estimated base salary range for this position is $167,790 to $209,740.

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), an open 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 2023, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.