Staff Software Engineer, Traffic Management Systems

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.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Posting Open Date: 7/23/2024

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 8/15/2024

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

Fastly's Traffic Management Systems Team owns and operates the services used to balance customer traffic globally, across hundreds of sites. We are building an autonomous control system that monitors Fastly’s edge platform and makes real-time data-driven decisions to ensure high levels of availability and performance across our network. We are looking for a technical leader with experience in designing, building and operating distributed systems that are scalable, fault tolerant and easy to manage. You'll be joining a team responsible for some of Fastly’s most critical network services, used by some of the world’s most popular companies to power the Internet. In addition to networking and systems-level work, this role will involve defining the architecture by which Fastly consumes data to conduct traffic engineering at scale. Many of our largest customers rely on our work to ensure a performant and delightful experience for their users. You will play a critical role in ensuring the success of this team to continue and set higher operational standards.

What You'll Do:

• Design, implement and operate systems that react quickly to changing network conditions
• Build a distributed control system that collects and processes large amounts of data across Fastly’s worldwide fleet
• Prioritize scalability, security, performance and reliability in the design of the applications you support
• Be a central point across fastly engineering for technical conversations and building trust
• Own part of Fastly’s ongoing strategy to improve customer experience, now and in the future
• Mentor and support junior engineers

What We're Looking For: 

• 8 years of experience designing and developing software components on Unix/Linux platforms
• 5 years of experience building and operating distributed networking/cloud systems at scale
• Track record of writing resilient and maintainable Go, C, and/or Rust code
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas across multi-functional teams
• A passion for learning, and sharing what you’ve learned with others

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

• Hands-on experience developing or operating core network services such as HTTP, DNS or BGP
• Experience with major cloud infrastructure providers such as AWS, GCP and/or Azure 
• Experience with infrastructure as code systems like terraform and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with monitoring solutions like Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience with Machine Learning & Analytical tools

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Locations & Travel Requirements: 

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York City, NY

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

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

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 $181,220 to $226,520.

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.

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