Please note: You MUST CURRENTLY reside in North America to be considered for this position

The Fastly Security Products Engineering group develops and operates next generation security capabilities in the Fastly and Signal Sciences platforms. We’re looking for an experienced data analyst to play a foundational role in driving data insights into our anti-automation and anti-fraud products. In this role, you’ll solve data-oriented puzzles whose solutions have an immediate, tangible impact on internet security. You’ll be instrumental in defining our growing product lines, and working with our engineering teams to protect our customers. You’ll analyze existing datasets, design systems and define protocols for new analysis, advise engineering on analytics platform design, and work with our customer security operations teams to improve the quality of Fastly’s anti-automation and anti-fraud solutions.

The insights you provide will guide the path of our existing- and future- bot-management and anti-fraud products. You will have the autonomy and support to experiment, improve and ultimately define the future of the processes you are responsible for. As a Senior Data Analyst on the Security Product Engineering team, you will provide mentorship as well as help us shape patterns, standards, and methodologies for the wider engineering organization.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is a remote role and open to candidates residing in the following locations: US (Remote).   

In a remote position, you may not reside within a commutable distance to a Fastly office.

This position may require travel approximately 2-4 times per year as requested by your manager.

What You'll Do

• Detect automated attacks through analysis of disparate, large-scale data sources available at Fastly
• Advise on data pipeline engineering and data analytics platform design
• Advise customer security operations teams on complex customer issues
• Work closely anti-automation and anti-fraud engineering teams on design of data collection and attack mitigations
• Identify key metrics for driving product goals, and advise on system design to track them
• Collaborate with our security research team to understand cutting-edge attacks and defensive techniques
• Mentor teams in everything from analysis to solving complex problems with data
• Promote a data culture through data-driven product insights

Work Hours: 

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

What We're Looking For

Basic Qualifications:

• You have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in a data analysis or data mining role
• Ability to apply contemporary data analytics and data science languages and technologies to solve business problems
  • Strong SQL skills: capable of complex, efficient, and maintainable SQL to accomplish data analysis goals. A major plus if you have hands-on experience in building and managing data transformations.
  • Experience with cloud warehouse technologies, such as BigQuery
  • Experience with data visualization tools
• Ability to analyze data from disparate sources applying statistical techniques as needed
• Ability to execute effectively with a distributed team.
• Ability and drive to become a subject matter expert in automated web- and network- attacks and defenses.
• Ability to program in an imperative language; ability and drive to learn new languages as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Functional knowledge of bot management, anti-fraud or related fields such as digital advertising or real-user monitoring
• Experience applying machine learning to related detection problems
  • Apache Spark and MLlib, e.g. via Scala or Python bindings
  • Model training using Google Compute Platform AutoML or Vertex AI Workbench
  • Jupyter Notebooks
• Understanding of adversarial traffic classification, mitigation techniques, and associated ecosystems
• Experience in data analysis to support platform operations (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Experience in software development with golang, Javascript, or Rust
• Data privacy or information security expertise
• Experience delivering results in an IaC culture
• Experience with CDNs, proxies, or edge computing technology

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $150,000 to $207,000. 

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 Fastly’s 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), company paid holidays, paid time off and paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.

COVID Travel Policy

Fastly is committed to safeguarding the health and well-being of our employees. Therefore, new hires may be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 if the role requires business-related travel, in-person meetings, attending large events and working in an office location, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or if prohibited by local law.