Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Network Operations

Principle Site Reliability Engineer, Networking

Fastly’s Technical Operations (TechOps) team is responsible for building & operating the infrastructure that powers the Fastly Edge Cloud Platform. We oversee an extensive global network that spans 6 continents with over 252 TBps of connected capacity. 

Our platform serves a significant portion of the content delivered to internet consumers across the planet, with customers ranging from online media streaming services to e-commerce, to open source projects, nonprofits and more. We take this responsibility seriously!

We’re looking for an experienced technical leader with deep knowledge of the internet that can bring strong engineering principles, operational rigor, and mature automation skills to help craft the future of Fastly’s network.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain the software & infrastructure that powers Fastly’s Edge Cloud Platform.
• Help advance SRE principles and fundamentals. Provide technical leadership to other members of the organization.
• Reduce toil. Increase scalability by building self-healing automation to reduce manual interaction, including network & system configuration, capacity & performance management, and traffic engineering.
• Advocate for our customers while ensuring the operational stability of our network. Look for areas of opportunity and partner with engineering teams in the scoping and prioritization of their roadmaps and software solutions.
• Develop innovative ways of monitoring performance of the platform, with focus on the experience of end users on the Internet. Catch and remediate potential issues before they develop into impacting events.
• Respond to both internal & external facing incidents. Use learnings from these events to help shape processes, automation and tooling to reduce future occurrences.
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical after-hours incidents. 

What We're Looking For

• You have a minimum of 8 years of experience building or operating networking/distributed/cloud systems
• You have at least 8 years of hands on experience with design and development of software components on Unix/Linux platforms
• You have at least 5 years of experience in writing elegant and maintainable Rust, Python and/or Go code
• Experience with bootstrapping new engineering initiatives. Familiarity with taking an idea from inception to implementation. 
• Comfortable occasionally working with ambiguity. Able to analyze requirements and build out solutions. 
• Real-world experience in the protocols and practices that make up the fabric of the global internet, including IP, BGP, Anycast, and DNS.
• Experience of DevOps practices and CI / CD pipelines (ie. Git, Jenkins, Ansible) 
• Understanding of highly available & complex systems and how they operate at scale.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience building and leading technical teams. 
• Experience across cloud environments (i.e., GCP, AWS or Azure)

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements 

Preferred locations for this position are:

• US (Remote)
• San Francisco, CA
• Los Angeles, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York, NY 

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.  

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720 to $244,640.

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.

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