Staff Software Engineer - Observability Products

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Staff Software Engineer - Observability Products

The Observability Products group is responsible for developing a new and expanding suite of observability-related products at Fastly. We’re looking for an experienced, highly collaborative software engineer to join us as we bring a best-in-class observability experience to Fastly customers. As a part of this group, you’ll work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering to design, evolve, and build the systems and APIs that leverage and derive valuable insights from the real-time and historic data available within the Fastly platform.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, maintain, and test systems & tools within the Observability product-line
• Work directly with stakeholders and the Product team to find and evaluate opportunities for new Observability products and features
• Design systems that can evolve as we move between different phases of the product lifecycle; from experiments and proof of concepts to stable, performant, and scalable products
• Develop design and architecture documents as a way of collaborating across groups in the design of new systems and APIs
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and customers to craft systems that deliver best-in-class observability products to Fastly customers
• Make your support available to your team when and where they need it — a time zone compatible with the continental US, where your team will be, is a must for this role
• Participate in an on-call rotation

What We’re Looking For 

• Experience programming in Go or similar languages
• Experience designing, developing, and testing REST APIs
• Experience with projects related to observability and/or low-latency data collection and analysis
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
• Experience with event-driven systems and/or time-series data
• Experience writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
• Experience with complex production systems that support the needs of a rapidly growing business
• Experience collaborating across groups and functions, including Product and design teams, to understand customer needs
• Ability to mentor, guide, and coach team members
• Ability to learn new skills and share what you’ve learned with the broader team

We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. It would be an added bonus if you have experience in ANY of these:

• Go development
• Kubernetes or similar orchestration platform
• Relational and non-relational storage systems (e.g. MySQL, BigQuery, MongoDB, ClickHouse, ElasticSearch, Graphite)
• Message queues (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)

The estimated salary range for this position is $169,000 to $245, 000. 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

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? 

• 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), company paid holidays, paid time off and paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit, please apply!

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Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a