What You'll Do

Lead full lifecycle projects from design and development through roll out and maintenance to build new features for products written in Rust, Go, and Python, ensuring compatibility with the latest Fastly products and features.

Design and implement new Fastly features and enhancements for these products, based on customer feedback and modern best practices, writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise.

Identify, diagnose, and resolve issues within the products, with a focus on performance and reliability at scale.

Ensure timely and effective solutions to maintain high-quality customer experiences.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, including cloud engineers, product managers, and customer support teams to understand user requirements and address issues related to the products.

Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation for the products, including usage guides, best practices, and troubleshooting resources.

What We're Looking For :

Significant professional experience building high-reliability distributed systems. Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have more than 7 years of related experience.

At least 5 years of experience with the Rust and Python programming languages.

At least 2 years of experience working with technologies such as semantic caching, API design, model gardens, and embedding models.

Experience at creating clear, concise, and comprehensive technical documentation.

Experience working with customer support teams, and directly with customers, to diagnose and troubleshoot problems.

Experience mentoring, guiding, and coaching team members

Ability to learn new skills and share what you’ve learned with the broader team

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

Cloud/serverless platforms

Python virtual environments and packaging

Pytorch/Tensorflow libraries

A passion for learning new languages

Experience using OAuth and JWT authentication methods

Software testing frameworks and code coverage analysis tools

Terraform

Note on the Interview Process:

At Fastly we have a comprehensive multi stage interview process that is kind to both the interviewer and interviewees. Please be ready to bring to the technical interview round a significantly complex piece of code that you can talk about both in its functionality and the development process where you had to solve challenges and the solutions you came up with.

Work Hours:

This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support the on-call rotation.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following office locations:

San Francisco, CA

New York, NY

Denver, CO

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. We may consider exceptionally qualified candidates who are remote in the US. This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

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 salary range for this position is $195,720 to $234,864

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 Flexible 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 2025, we offer 11 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 have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of. 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.