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 GitHub Yelp Paramount and JetBlue.
Were building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
Leveraging our growing security product suite SOC Analyst role contributes real world security insights to Fastly and our customers as we address Internet-scale threats. Cloud security solutions enable our customers to benefit from extra visibility across the world and expertise from a central team.
The Fastly Customer Security Operations Center team at Fastly focuses on operational support of Fastlys security products and services. The SOC Analyst role within this team focuses on delivering outstanding security services to our customers specifically as it pertains to integrating and supporting agent software installed on customer systems. The team works with the security operations and customer organizations internally to deliver support solutions for security threats faced on the Internet today.
As a 24 x 7 team SOC analysts are expected to work either Tuesday through Saturday Sunday through Thursday or Monday through Friday shifts.
This role within the Fastly Customer Security Operations Center (CSOC) will be responsible for monitoring and analyzing customer activity with added emphasis on security functions like identifying account-takeover or Bot Attacks and WAF administration. Much of the focus will be on security and attacks around the application layer working with different web technologies. You will have the opportunity to work on some of the worlds most scalable distributed systems that handle around 10 million requests per second as well as the world-class engineers who developed these systems.
In this position security engineers will be responsible for the following duties:
Be an expert in ensuring security for customers providing an outstanding response to security issues.
Provide deep application-security experience on escalated cases from customers & automated systems.
Carry out continuous-improvement work & research to drive our customer security products & operations to be the best they can be.
Contribute to the processes and policies that scale our organization as we grow
Create & review reporting to customers on security services
Create & manage security content for customer environments
Prior Experience working in a SOC Environment
Experience with some or all the following foundational technologies: SaaS/Cloud or hybrid cloud deployments; Apache/NGINX/IIS or other web server platforms and associated Application server technologies and frameworks
Scripting ability with any of the following: Python Java Go Rust PHP Unix/Linux Shell C# or other common Web languages
Strong infosec background with strong knowledge & practical skills in Application Security.
Experience in an IT or security technical support operations or research role
Unix/Linux or Windows System Administration
Ability to work with limited supervision but be a good mentor on security knowledge to the greater team
Fluent spoken & written English required tailoring depth to be a good fit for varying audiences
Ability and experience in troubleshooting software products
Focussed on delivering exceptional customer experiences.
We value a variety of voices so this is not a laundry list. Youll be a good candidate if you have experience in SOME of these:
Strong knowledge of core internet-technologies like DNS HTTP & TLS and how to debug with common tools
Experience with Data Analytics around spotting threats in customers environments.
Monitoring tools (Grafana Prometheus Looker or others)
Security Detection & Response (Log pipelines / SIEM / etc)
Cloud ecosystem knowledge & experience (GCP or similar)
Business speaking and writing proficiency in other languages preferred
Docker or Kubernetes experience - these have widespread use.
Systems Config Management. Ways to make it easier to deploy our software into customer environments is very helpful
Work Hours
This position will require you to work during scheduled hours from 9am - 6pm . As a 24 x 7 team SOC analysts are expected to work either Tuesday through Saturday Sunday through Thursday or Monday through Friday shifts.
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:
This position is open to the following preferred office location ONLY:
Tokyo Japan
Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees some flexibility to split their time between the office and home. Candidates based remotely in Japan with Japanese language skills will be considered.
This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
Salary:
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 designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.
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 ofopen 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.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Fastly, Inc. is an American cloud computing services provider. Fastly's edge cloud platform provides a content delivery network, Internet security services, load balancing, and video & streaming services.