Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Fastly, a company that helps people stay better connected with the things they love. We're building a more trustworthy Internet and are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Services team.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experiencing developing software in a distributed environment
• Significant experience programming in Go and Kotlin
• Understanding of the challenges involved in operating and evolving scalable and reliable data storage systems of multiple types
• A thoughtful and empathetic approach to design and implementation
• Experience with message queues such as Google Pub/Sub, NSQ, Kafka, Kinesis
• Experience with container technology, Kubernetes/Docker/Helm, or similar
• Experience with metric collection and monitoring tools like Prometheus or services like DataDog
• Eagerness & aptitude to learn new languages & technologies

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the software and systems that ingest, manage, and process the data that powers Fastly's products
• Partner with others in both the local team and across Fastly to deliver larger, cross-team projects on time
• Scale out large data systems to meet the growing needs of Fastly and its customers
• Use infrastructure as code and configuration management systems to run the software you develop
• Build in anticipation of the reliability, scalability, and performance needs of our systems
• Create and maintain dashboards and alerts to monitor our services
• Participate in the on-call & support rotation we share
• Help to establish the practice of using SLOs to guide decisions and priorities

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program
• Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
• 401(k) (including company match)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days