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. We’re building a more trustworthy Internet.

Senior

Engineer - Production Cloud and Container Services Fleet Operations and Production Engineering at Fastly is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud and Container Services team. This role is focused on helping to scale and manage Fastly’s Kubernetes based platform for control plane services. This platform is built on top of multiple public cloud services and contains many Kubernetes ecosystem components.

A successful candidate will help expand our platform feature set, support existing users and onboard new services, and drive efficiency while maintaining a secure platform. Design, build, and operate infrastructure (cloud, Fastly datacenter) to enable reliable and rapid deployment. This includes effective monitoring and resilient operations in a large-scale multi-cloud and hybrid cloud / on-premise workplace.

Diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues across the stack: application, operating system, network, 3rd party services and APIs, including cross-application dependencies. Write tools to automate maintenance and deployment of servers, services, and applications. Collaborate with internal users and continually evolve the platform and its operations using solid engineering practices.

Drive projects sometimes independently and sometimes collaboratively across time zones.



Most Senior level Engineers at Fastly have more than 5 years of related experience. Understanding of Linux systems, high and low level.

Experience building and operating production-grade kubernetes clusters in multiple regions, clouds or data centers.

Experience with programming languages such as Go and Python. You can create medium-sized programs from scratch such as custom kubernetes controllers, custom prometheus exporters, and building tooling to help manage infrastructure.

Experience with infrastructure and configuration management tooling.

Experience provisioning and managing users and resources with cloud providers such as AWS and GCP. You have provisioned users and accounts using both graphical user interfaces and infrastructure as code frameworks. You have experience provisioning components on public cloud and understand how they work together in creating a multi-tiered service.

You have deployed and managed services built on top of public cloud components such as EC2, S3, and GKE. You can iterate infrastructure via pipelines through code changes.

Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog and Grafana.

Experience leveraging AI tooling to accelerate your work and enable new capabilities. This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support on-call coverage. Work Location(s)



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

There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US, UK or Canada. This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs. 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 ~11 paid local holidays ~Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

We value diversity. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. Fastly collects and processes personal data submitted by job applicants in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

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