Fastly is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Fastly, a company that helps people stay better connected with the things they love. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Customer Usage Data Platform team, you will lead the design and development of highly-available, scalable, distributed systems to enable Fastly to meet the challenges of sustained growth.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience developing highly available, reliable REST APIs — Most Staff level engineers at Fastly have at least 7 years of related experience
• Professional experience with Go (golang), Java, and/or C++
• Strong understanding of service-oriented architectures, and design patterns
• Experience building global-scale distributed systems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A great teammate with strong collaboration skills who is humble and empathetic
• Experience working with teams distributed across different time zones
• Ability to learn new skills quickly and share what you have learned with the broader team

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of features from planning to deployment, facilitating review and discussion with peers and partners, and ensuring features as implemented meet product requirements
• Work collaboratively with customer support, solutions, product, and sales teams to produce data and APIs that unlock additional revenues
• Clearly communicate upward and outward to articulate trade-offs, set and adjust expectations with your manager and partners
• Collaborate with your teammates through design discussions, code and design reviews, advocate for software development best practices, and mentor junior teammates
• Join our on-call rotation to ensure the data from our global customers is available within agreed upon SLAs

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