Principal Software Engineer, Edge Delivery

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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Please note: You MUST CURRENTLY reside within a commutable distance to Denver to be considered for this position. NO EXCEPTIONS

The Edge Delivery team maintains Varnish, Fastly’s core caching platform. Leveraging C and Rust standards and toolchains, the team develops a high-scale daemon and supporting services that execute customer configurations and connects to a large and growing variety of Fastly back-end services. 

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join this crucial team and help scale our hosting infrastructure. In addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work, this role will involve extensive cross-team collaboration as well as the design of high quality APIs to enable our customers to utilize services developed by other teams at Fastly.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and facilitate collaboration with other teams at Fastly on interfaces to Varnish and related technologies like VCL
• Design and implement both low- and high-level APIs for interacting with edge services
• Write C and Rust code that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
• Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
• Design, review, and author software relevant to your team’s function
• Provide context to technical conversations that drives clear goals and prioritization
• Utilize your expertise in software engineering to ensure high quality software is delivered incrementally
• Advise other software developers by mentoring them from your own experience, and helping guide their direction based on company needs
• Clearly communicate upward and outward to set and adjust expectations with your partners

What We're Looking For: 

• You have at least 7 years of production experience as a software engineer with at least 2 of those working on networking/distributed/cloud systems
• You have been a principal contributor or a tech lead with the ability to influence the direction of a customer facing product
• You have at least 3 years of experience with either C or Rust 
• Ability to participate in and help coordinate incident response and mitigation
• Formal CS education is not required; demonstrable experience is sufficient

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

• Experience with C, Rust or other systems languages
• Experience with API design in functional languages
• Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems
• Experience with and interest in technical writing
• Interest in open source contribution

Work Hours:

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

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: 

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco, CA
• New York, NY
• Los Angeles, CA
• 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. 

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720 to $244,640. 

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), an open vacation policy and