Senior Backend Software Engineer (APIs)

<div class="content-intro"><p>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 GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.</p> <p>We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.</p></div><p><strong><strong>Posting Open Date: </strong></strong>08/24/2026</p> <p><strong><strong>Anticipated Posting Close Date*: </strong></strong>10/24/2026</p> <p><strong>Senior Backend Software Engineer (APIs), Security Products</strong></p> <p>Some of the largest sites on the internet trust Fastly to keep them safe. The Security Products Console team owns the public-facing interface they use to do it - configuring Next-Gen WAF, DDoS protection, Bot Management, and the products we're building next.</p> <p>Our APIs meet critical business needs. Customers deploy them during active attacks, automate them through Terraform and CI/CD, and build entire security workflows on top of them. When the threat landscape moves, our APIs are how customers move with it. A bad release here leaves them exposed when they need us most: a great one is invisible, and that's the bar.</p> <p>We're hiring as the API surface scales for new product launches and a growing developer ecosystem. You'll be one of the engineers shaping what that surface looks like for the next several years.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, ship, and own public-facing APIs and backend services in Go -from technical proposal &amp; design docs through implementation, testing, and production rollout and on-call support.</li> <li>Use AI coding agents as part of your daily workflow.</li> <li>Partner with frontend engineers, product managers, and security researchers to ship the customer experience end-to-end.</li> <li>Take ambiguous or broadly-scoped problems and turn them into well-defined technical plans that the team can execute on.</li> <li>Author design and architectural documents and use them to drive alignment across engineering and product teams</li> <li>Collaborate with internal platform teams, product managers, and stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs and deliver impactful solutions</li> <li>Consider stability, performance, and scalability in your designs and in the guida