What You'll Do :

Lead full lifecycle projects from design through global rollout in support of Fastly’s innovative technology in partner ISPs, cloud regions, and bare-metal POPs

Design and implement foundational libraries, APIs, and automation to run Fastly or customer workloads across all edge environments

Use a variety of technologies from Linux through cloud technologies in the development, deployment, evolution, and maintenance of the edge platform

Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements

Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders on defining, developing and maintaining different deployment models based on partnerships and customers needs

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.

Significant professional proficiency with Go and/or Rust and aptitude for learning new languages.

Experience with networking/distributed/cloud systems especially Kubernetes

Experience with debugging Linux internals either in a cloud environment or on bare metal systems

Hands-on experience in building distributed infrastructure and maintaining it over time

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear and comprehensive documentation

A collaborative mindset with experience working across cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and innovation

Proven ability to mentor and support the growth of engineers, both within a specific area of expertise and more broadly

An understanding of safe coding practices, release practices, and data analysis techniques

Pragmatic approach, with a willingness to invest as much energy into maintenance as into new code

Strong passion for detailed and timely documentation

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

Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems including QEMU

Developed or supported in a zero-trust environment including secure boot, attestations

Experience either developing or supporting Linux Kernel

Knowledge of network protocols & functions: BGP, TCP, routing, transport

Passion for modernizing software while ensuring continued functionality

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 are not considering remote applicants at this time.

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.