Security Risk Lead

<div class="content-intro"><p>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 GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.</p> <p>We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.</p></div><h2><strong>Security Risk Lead&nbsp;</strong></h2> <p>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.</p> <p>We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.</p> <p><strong>Posting Open Date: May 4, 2026</strong></p> <p><strong>Anticipated Posting Close Date*:&nbsp; July 4, 2026</strong></p> <p><em>*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.</em></p> <h2><strong>Security Risk Lead</strong></h2> <p>As the Security Risk Lead, you will be at the center of all things security risk-related. Your goal is to take complex security data and turn it into clear, actionable risk stories for Senior Leadership. You will help Fastly understand not just that risks exist, but influence leaders to understand why it matters and what needs to be prioritized versus dropped. You’ll diagnose problems at the source, working with stakeholders from Security, Engineering, Compliance, and the rest of the organization to redesign our internal systems and make our environment more secure. Fastly believes that security is everyone’s responsibility and you will empower all of Fastly to live up to that responsibility. You will right-size Fastly’s existing security policies and standards so they are as lean and high-performing as our technology.</p> <p>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 a service built to the highest security standards in the industry. We pride ourselves in our involvement in the larger security community and encourage our team to present at network and security conferences and participate in the open source community. We are a distributed security team with the commitment and tools in place to make it work.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Lead targeted security risk assessments across the organization, proactively identifying gaps and risks which pose a threat to the safety and security&nbsp;</li> <li>Analyze risk data to identify patterns of deficiencies and collaborate with Security Architects, Product Owners, Engineering, and Senior Leaders to propose new, or challenge existing, mitigation plans&nbsp;</li> <li>Own and evolve the systems that track our risk decisions and mitigations; ensuring we have visibility into the greatest areas of concern, where we need to buy down more risk, and to keep our mitigation plans on track with the committed timelines&nbsp;</li> <li>Oversee relevant Risk Committees to identify and discuss systemic and cross-functional security risks, influencing Senior Leaders across Fastly to commit to mitigation plans</li> <li>Design metrics and reporting to give Senior Leadership a pulse check on our security posture, highlighting exactly where we need to invest</li> <li>Maintain Fastly’s core security policies and standards, balancing industry best practices with our risk appetite&nbsp;</li> <li>Support the assessment and maintenance of our third party risk within Fastly’s vendor landscape&nbsp;</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></h2> <p>At Fastly we value a diversity of voices. The following is not a laundry list, but to be effective in this role you should possess some of the following and an interest in learning more about the rest:</p> <ul> <li>6+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Managem