Security Javascript Engineer

Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust the Fastly edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.

Fastly is looking for a senior security Javascript engineer to join our web application firewall (WAF) team. The ideal candidate will have proven experience building rich client-side User Interfaces for security products on the web. They should be fluent in web technology and standards, capable of delivering excellent code in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment, and enjoy a combination of autonomy and collaboration.

• Develop and maintain delightful user experiences in ambitious web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Crafting security product interfaces that look and behave well across browsers and platforms
• Collaborate with backend developers on implementation of REST endpoints
• Produce reliable, well-tested, high-quality code
• Contribute ideas for iterative improvements to both code and culture
• Assist our support engineers in diagnosing and triaging issues throughout the stack

Requirements

• Good understanding of JavaScript
• Experience building rich web interfaces using frameworks like Ember and React
• Experience delivering software using agile methodologies
• Excited about mentoring other members of the team
• Supporting the full lifecycle of a software project, including deployment and monitoring

Desired

• Familiarity with web application attacks and security products
• Familiarity with TCP/IP networking concepts
• Familiarity with data science/data visualization concepts, especially around time series, geolocation, heat maps