Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Fastly, a company that helps people stay better connected with the things they love. As a Staff Software Engineer - Compute SDKs (remote), you will focus on the technology that powers Fastly's Compute platform, built on open standards running on our global edge network.

Requirements

• At least 8+ years of Software Engineering experience building developer tools & ecosystems or doing language design
• Expert understanding of the JS ecosystem
• Comfortable in a C++ codebase
• Production Rust experience
• A keen sense of what a good developer experience looks like and a drive to deliver it
• A willingness to dive into and learn bleeding-edge and developing technologies and mentor others
• A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic with a thoughtful, user-driven approach

Responsibilities

• Focus on Fastly’s Javascript SDK & the StarlingMonkey JS runtime
• Stay ahead of the latest JavaScript and WinterCG standards, implementing them for StarlingMonkey and supporting them on Fastly’s compute platform
• Your day to day area of focus will vary, depending on project need and skills. The general areas you may work on are
• Language-specific SDK’s for wasm and improving their feature completeness and performance
• Working with open source communities
• Language runtimes for Wasm (such as StarlingMonkey, or the Python runtime)
• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly with the team members and across other technical and product teams
• Contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
• Manage projects from a technical lead role driving project progress and communicating project status to stakeholders

Benefits

• 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