Senior Site Reliability 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.

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

We are looking for a Senior SRE who is passionate about building, scaling, and automating our internal platforms and providing global visibility to the health and performance of our hosting infrastructure.

You will take ownership of the production responsibilities of a key Fastly Edge Delivery system, working alongside other engineering and support teams to provide insights and tooling to make our services more observable assisting in designing and making key improvements to our automated build and test infrastructure. Additionally, you will assist in troubleshooting and debugging production services and as well as collaborating with engineering and support teams to improve documentation and debugging tools.

What You'll Do:

Partner with Assist operations and customer support teams in diagnosing and debugging production servicesAnalyze and improve telemetry collection, instrumentation, monitoring systems, and dashboards

• Lead incident reviews to build improved alerts for both detection and potential proactive mitigations
• Improve operational processes (including builds, automated tests, and  deployments) with the goal of making them as uneventful as possibleIdentify gaps in testing and debugging tools and assist in their development and improvement

What We're Looking For: 

• In order to be successful in this role, you must have 5 years of experience operating highly available distributed systems and supporting mission critical infrastructure
• You have been a technical leader for at least 2 years
• You have a minimum of 4 years of experience with build and packaging tools, CI systems (either Jenkins or Github Actions), and release engineering practices
• You must have at least 4 years of experience with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk or BigQuery
• You not only know how to write shell scripts, but know when it’s time to replace those shell scripts with something more complexYou have software development experience with Rust, Go, Python or another programming language

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

• Understanding of the open source software community and the contribution process
• Background in technical writing and desire to document and share knowledge
• Knowledge of HTTP protocol internals, with bonus points if you can spell “referrer” correctly

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours.
• You will participate in a on-call rotation to support platform availability.

Work Locations & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco, CA
• New York City, 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.

Salary: 

The estimated salary range for this position is $167,790 to $209,740.

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 company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2024, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days. 

Why Fastly?