Senior Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering

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: June 9, 2025

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Aug 4, 2025

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

 

Senior Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering  

Do you thrive on designing deployment pipelines and tooling that keep a global edge platform running seamlessly across diverse environments? Fastly’s Infrastructure Engineering organization builds and operates the systems that power our worldwide presence. As a Senior Engineer, you will extend our deployment models to support new ISP partnerships and evolving technologies, ensuring our edge software remains reliable, observable, and easy to operate -- whether on bare metal, under orchestration, or traditional cloud.

What You'll Do:

• Ship production-ready code supporting Fastly workloads consistently across partner ISPs, public clouds, and on-prem POPs
• Combine Linux internals, virtualization, container orchestration, and cloud APIs to create repeatable deployment patterns and low-touch day-2 operations
• Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements to keep the edge healthy
• Collaborate with development teams, operations, and stakeholders to transform new customer or platform requirements into dependable features; and own them in production

What We're Looking For: 

• At least 5 years building high-reliability distributed systems
• Senior level proficiency in Go, Rust, or another systems language
• Hands on experience in production with Kubernetes, or comparable orchestration tooling
• Experience with debugging Linux internals either in a cloud environment or on bare metal systems
• An understanding of safe coding practices, release practices, and data analysis techniques
• Pragmatic approach, with a willingness to refactor legacy code one day and write green-field services the next
• Strong passion for producing clear, accurate, and timely documentation

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

• Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems
• Experience with linux based virtualization
• Experience either developing or supporting Linux Kernel
• Knowledge of network protocols: BGP, TCP, routing, transport
• Passion for modernizing software while ensuring continued functionality

 

Work Hours:

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

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following office locations:

• San Francisco, CA
• New York, 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 not considering remote applicants at this time.

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 $167,790 to $201,348. 

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

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits: 

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