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Fastly · 17 hours ago

Staff Engineer - API Services

Denver, CO

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$211K/yr - $254K/yr

7+ years exp

Fastly is a company that helps people stay better connected through its edge cloud platform. The Staff Software Engineer will lead the design and development of highly-available and scalable distributed systems, ensuring the performance and reliability of Fastly’s Control Plane while mentoring other engineers and driving architectural improvements.

Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSoftwareCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureCloud SecurityContent Delivery NetworkSecurity

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development for highly-available, scalable, and distributed systems to enable Fastly to meet the challenges of sustained growth and scale

Mentor engineers across the team in developing applications in Go and advocate for software development best practices and high-quality code standards

Drive significant process and architecture improvements by evolving manual tasks and complex legacy components into reliable, automatic, and highly efficient systems

Define and communicate the long-term technical roadmap for API Services and collaborate with engineering leaders and principal engineers to align cross-team dependencies and strategies

Anticipate, design, and implement major architectural changes to ensure the continued reliability and scaling needs of the Fastly Control Systems for years to come

Define and champion Platform Engineering best practices for the API Services team, improving the foundational infrastructure used by internal developers

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 an on-call rotation

Qualification

GoLangDistributed systemsCloud providersInfrastructure as codeContainerizationMonitoring toolsProcess automationTime zone coordinationCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

At least 7 years of related development experience, including a significant track record of building and scaling 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)

Experience with declarative configuration languages such as CUE or other tools for managing configuration compilation and coordination

Track record of processes improvements through automation

Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, etc)

Deep expertise and mastery of distributed systems and microservices architecture, including hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale production services

Proven ability to independently drive and deliver large, complex, and ambiguous projects that span multiple teams and require significant cross-organizational influence

Strong written and verbal communication skills

A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic

Experience working with teams distributed across different time zones

Preferred

Experience in Envoy

Experience with API Gateways

Experience with Varnish, VCL

Experience with Service Mesh implementation/configuration

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Family planning

Mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program

Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)

A Flexible Vacation policy

Up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave

401(k) (including company match)

Employee Stock Purchase Program

11 paid local holidays

12 paid company wellness days

Company

Fastly

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Fastly helps digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering secure and online experiences.

Founded in 2011

San Francisco, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.fastly.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (9)

2024 (11)

2023 (7)

2022 (12)

2021 (6)

2020 (5)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$529M

Key Investors

DTCPSapphire Ventures,Sorenson CapitalICONIQ Growth

2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $160M

2024-12-02Post Ipo Debt· $150M

2019-05-16IPO

Leadership Team

Kip Compton

Chief Executive Officer

Hooman Beheshti

VP Technology

Recent News

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