Senior Manager Detection Engineering

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 211370 - 253644

Posted on: 9 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastlys 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. Fastlys customers include many of the worlds most prominent companies including Vimeo Pinterest The New York Times and GitHub.

Were building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Posting Open Date: November 6 2025

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: December 6 2025

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Senior Manager - Detection Engineering

Were looking for a Senior Manager to lead our Security Detection Engineering this role youll grow and shape our detection engineering program and level up our security incident response processes. The ideal candidate is hands-on and technical with experience in security engineering detection development incident response and who knows how to support and empower a team. You take a practical risk-based approach to securityfocusing on impact driving automation wherever possible and keeping things efficient without overcomplicating them.

What Youll Do:

Shape and execute the long-term strategy for detection engineering security incident response threat intelligence and threat hunting
Lead efforts to build detections tools automations and integrations that strengthen our threat detection and response capabilities
Mentor grow and support a team of security engineers
Work with Fastlys Incident Management team to improve our security incident response processes playbooks and metrics
Partner with engineering to implement security controls
Lead security incidents for the company

What Were Looking For:

An empathetic and inclusive leader with experience in leading a team of security practitioners
Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to effectively communicate security risks and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Technical understanding of attacker threats and exploitation techniques and first-hand experience in investigating them
Experience in scaling a detection engineering program and building high-fidelity detections-as-code
Experience in serving as an Incident Commander or leading large cross-functional security incidents
Experience in securing identifying threats and responding to incidents in one major public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
7-10 years of relevant experience; we are open to strong candidates with varying backgrounds who can demonstrate equivalent expertise and impact.

Well be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

Published security research or have spoken at community events on detection engineering or security incident response
Familiarity with content delivery networks (CDN) edge cloud platforms or other Fastly products and services
Experience with Linux administration at scale associated intrusion/manipulation techniques and standard methodologies for system hardening and process isolation.

Work Hours:

This position will require you to be available during core business hours and support an escalation-tier on-call rotation.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

New York NY
San Francisco CA
Denver CO

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

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

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 $211370 to $253644.

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 Fastlys 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 2025 we offer 11 paid local holidays 11 paid company wellness days.

Why Fastly

We have a huge impact.Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only doour customershave a tremendous user base but we also support a growing number of open source projects and 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. Fastlys home-base is in San Francisco but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly participate in hands-on learning opportunities and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.
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 were 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.

Were 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 We will never request sensitive information such as your Social Security number bank account or credit card information during the application process. All official communication will come from an @ or @ email address.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin family or parental status physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact your Recruiter or the Fastly Employee Relations team at or .

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Required Experience:

Senior Manager