Senior Backend Software Engineer (APIs)
Fastly · Denver, CO; San Francisco
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- Company
- Fastly
- Location
- Denver, CO; San Francisco
- Salary
- $181,220 - $217,464
- Posted
- September 8, 2026
About this job
08/24/2026 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 10/24/2026 Senior Backend Software Engineer (APIs), Security Products Some of the largest sites on the internet trust Fastly to keep them safe. The Security Products Console team owns the public-facing interface they use to do it - configuring Next-Gen WAF, DDoS protection, Bot Management, and the products we're building next. Our APIs meet critical business needs. Customers deploy them during active attacks, automate them through Terraform and CI/CD, and build entire security workflows on top of them. When the threat landscape moves, our APIs are how customers move with it. A bad release here leaves them exposed when they need us most: a great one is invisible, and that's the bar.…
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