Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Network Management Platform

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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You MUST CURRENTLY reside within a commutable distance to San Francisco to be considered for this position

The Network Management Platform Team is looking for a talented Site Reliability and/or System Development Engineer with experience in designing, building and operating distributed systems that are scalable, fault tolerant and easy to manage. You'll be joining a dynamic and highly collaborative team of experienced engineers, responsible for building the next-generation network management platform that provides seamless integration of configuration capabilities for deployment and management of Fastly’s services. You will play a critical role in ensuring the success of this team to continue and set higher operational standards. 

What You'll Do:

• Architect, build, deploy and maintain robust infrastructure using public cloud providers to run diverse types of workloads
• Maintain and improve configuration management processes, CI/CD pipelines, utilities, and tooling
• Consider scalability, security, performance, reliability and ease-of-use in the design of the services you develop and support
• Build automation that reduces manual interaction and promotes continuous improvement
• Foster relationships with other teams to understand and provide end-user needs

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 a minimum of 3 years of experience with build and packaging tools, CI systems, release engineering practices and CD platforms
• You have at least 3 years of experience with automating public cloud workloads (GCP, AWS), and using IaC solutions such as Terraform
• You have 3 years of experience in building and managing containerized applications and container orchestration platforms like Docker and Kubernetes
• You have a track record of  instrumenting applications and integrating them with different observability solutions
• Experience in software development and DevOps best practices

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

• You have experience with configuration management software such as ansible and chef
• You are familiar with monitoring solutions like Prometheus and Grafana
• You have experience with compiled languages, preferably Go
• You have knowledge of key-value stores and sql databases
• You have experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams

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

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

We WILL NOT consider relocation for this position.

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.

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 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 Emp