Staff Software Engineer - Compute SDKs

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

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Posting Open Date: Oct. 7, 2024

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Oct. 28, 2024

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Staff Software Engineer - Compute SDKs (remote)

The SDK team is a part of the Compute Platform organization, and the WebAssembly team.  You will focus on the technology that powers Fastly’s Compute platform – an advanced serverless platform built on open standards which runs on our global edge network. It’s designed to address the requirements of modern application development by empowering customers to run code in a highly secure execution environment with microsecond cold start times, at scale, on the edge.  While we work in multiple programming languages, most of the work for this role, at least initially, will be C++, with some Rust development.  

What You'll Do:

• 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

What We're Looking For: 

• 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

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Experience in platform or runtime development

• Technical leadership experience in open source communities

• Experience with Python

• Experience in Wasm

Work Hours: 

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as needed to support the on-call rotation. 

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: 

This position is open to both hybrid and remote work locations. The preferred hybrid locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA

• New York City, NY

• Denver, CO

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.  

We are also willing to consider remote candidates in the United States.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

 

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

 

Salary: 

The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720 - $244,645

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and