Fastly is hiring a
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 Compute Platform team.

Requirements

• Have at least 5 years of backend software development experience, with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust, alternately in C/C++ and some knowledge of functional programming
• Have a minimum of 2 years of experience with distributed or cloud systems
• Be comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code

Responsibilities

• Write platform-level code in Rust that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
• Collaborate with other teams at Fastly on interfaces to Compute services
• Design and implement both low- and high-level APIs for interacting with edge services
• Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
• Be responsible for a large scale production system with extremely high performance and availability requirements
• Contribute to the Rust and WebAssembly open source ecosystems

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)
• Flexible Vacation policy
• Up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 401(k) (including company match)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program