Network Engineer

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.

Fastly’s Technical Operations (TechOps) team is responsible for building & operating the infrastructure that powers the Fastly Edge Cloud Platform. We oversee an extensive global network that spans 6 continents with over 252 TBps of connected capacity. 

Our platform serves a significant portion of the content delivered to internet consumers across the planet, with customers ranging from online media streaming services to e-commerce, to open source projects, nonprofits and more. We take this responsibility seriously!

We’re looking for an experienced technical leader with deep knowledge of the internet who can bring strong engineering principles, operational rigour, and mature automation skills to help craft the future of Fastly’s network. 

What You'll Do:

• Build, operate, and maintain the continually growing global network footprint of Fastly’s Edge Cloud Platform
• Develop innovative ways of monitoring the performance of the platform, with a focus on the experience of end users on the Internet
• Catch and remediate potential issues before they develop into impacting events
• Increase scalability by building self-healing automation to reduce manual interaction, including network & system configuration, capacity & performance management, and traffic engineering
• Responsibility on OSS tools, testing and adapting new technologies and tools for network
• Respond to both internal & external facing incidents. Use learnings from these events to help shape processes, automation and tooling to reduce future occurrences
• Advocate for the operational stability of the network. Look for areas of opportunity and partner with engineering teams in the scoping and prioritization of their roadmaps and software solutions

What We're Looking For: 

• Real-world experience in the protocols and practices that make up the fabric of the global internet, including IP, BGP, Anycast, and DNS
• Strong coding/ scripting skills, preferably in Python or Go.
• Ability to analyse traffic patterns across multiple dimensions using flow-based tools
• Experience working with alerting, monitoring and visibility tools (such as Graphite/Grafana, Prometheus, or Splunk)
• Experience across cloud hosting solutions (i.e., GCP, AWS and Azure)
• Experience of DevOps practices and CI / CD pipelines (ie. Git, Jenkins, Ansible) 
• Understanding of highly available & complex systems and how they operate at scale
• Ability to think through edge cases and failure scenarios
• Passionate about knowledge sharing and Good documentation skills

Work Hours: 

• This position will require you to work during scheduled hours from 9:00am - 6:00pm.

Work Location & Travel Requirements: 

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• 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. 

Salary: 

The estimated salary range for this position is $114,200 to $142,750.

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), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including compan