Senior Engineer - API Services

Summary

Join Fastly's API Services team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the performance and reliability of our Control Plane. You will design, develop, and maintain critical systems, working with Go, cloud environments, and infrastructure tools like Terraform and Kubernetes. This role requires at least 5 years of relevant experience, proficiency in GoLang, and expertise in cloud technologies. Collaboration with internal teams and participation in on-call rotation are essential. Fastly offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a hybrid or remote work option in the US.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Envoy
• Varnish
• API Gateway

Benefits

• 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
• 401(k) (including company match)
• An Employee Stock Purchase Program
• For 2024, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days
• This position is open to both hybrid and remote work locations in the US