Director, Engineering Platform Trust & Growth

Posting Open Date: Dec 1 2025

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Dec 19 2025

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

Engineering Director Platform Trust & Growth

Were 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 youll 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 wont 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.

What Youll Do:

• Define and drive the long-term strategy for the Trust & Growth Platform spanning identity access monetization of products and services and customer growth capabilities
• 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
• Drive development of scalable customer identity and access management (CIAM) systems that power seamless sign-up authentication authorization and lifecycle management experiences
• Oversee platform evolution to support fine-grained permissions models role hierarchies and delegated administration balancing usability with security best practices
• Advance and broaden user protection on our platform from threats like fraud and abuse
• Partner with product finance and go-to-market leaders to align monetization systems with customer identity and access roadmaps
• Be deeply involved in understanding and operationalizing revenue and pricing models for existing and new product and market launches
• Collaborate with Compliance and Security organizations to ensure Data at Fastly is protected and verifiable

What Were Looking For:

• 5 years leading tier-0 distributed systems engineering teams & managing engineers at all career levels.
• 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).
• Proven track record of building and scaling distributed backend systems on platforms for identity access management payments or monetization domains
• Strong product and business orientation with the ability to connect technical investments to revenue and growth outcomes
• Experience fostering inclusive collaborative and high-accountability engineering cultures
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills with executive presence to influence at the C-suite level

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

• Leading large-scale Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) initiatives
• Designing and operating billing payments or revenue growth platforms at global scale
• Driving convergence of trust/security platforms with monetization systems
• Building platform capabilities that enable cross-sell and upsell motions in SaaS businesses
• Scaling engineering organizations through rapid growth and transformation phases
• Prior experience evolving an authentication and authorization platform including Keycloak and Role-based access control
  
  

Work Location:

The preferred office locations for this position are:

• San Francisco CA
• Denver CO
• New York NY

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

There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However we may be willing to consider exceptionally qualified remote candidates within the US.

This position will require travel as requested by your manager.

Work Hours:

This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as the on-call escalation point.

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.