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.

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Posting Open Date: 11/15/2024

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 12/2/2024

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Senior Software Engineer - API Services

The API Services team owns critical services to ensure the performance and reliability of Fastly’s Control Plane. We are looking for a senior backend engineer with some SRE experience to join our team. This role involves working with numerous internal Fastly teams and supporting critical components of our infrastructure.

What You'll Do

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain systems and features that have a direct impact on how customers run their services on Fastly
Contribute, support and deploy applications and scripts written in Go to cloud environments
Evolve manual tasks into reliable, automatic systems
Operate infrastructure and services at scale
Collaborate with your teammates and other engineers across the organization through code and design reviews
Anticipate, design, and build for the continued reliability and scaling needs of the Fastly Control Systems
Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team by working with tools and frameworks like Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Chef
Participate in on-call rotation

What We're Looking For

You have at least 5 years of related development experience, preferably building global scale distributed systems
Hands-on experience developing applications in GoLang
Solid experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
Track record of processes improvements through automation
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, etc)
Understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
Able to implement reasonably well defined projects with minimal guidance
You are eager to learn new domains, grow your skills, and move up the stack
Strong written and verbal communication skills
A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic
You have experience working with teams distributed across different time zones

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

Envoy
Varnish
API Gateway

Work Hours:

This position will require you to be available during core North American business hours and occasional nights and weekends for on call rotation.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to both hybrid and remote work locations in the US.

The preferred hybrid locations for this position are:

San Francisco, 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.

We are willing to consider remote candidates in the United States only.

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary:

The estimated base salary range for this position is $167,790 to $209,740.

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), a non-accrual vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2024, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.

Why Fastly?

We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly, participate in hands-on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.
We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at [email protected] or 501-287-4901.

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