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. Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform This team builds the platform for Fastly’s Compute – an advanced serverless platform built on open standards which runs on our global edge network. It’s designed to address the requirements of modern application development by empowering customers to run code in a highly secure execution environment with microsecond cold start times, at scale, on the edge. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join this multifaceted team and help scale our hosting infrastructure. In addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work, this role will involve cross-team collaboration, and designing high quality APIs for our customers to use services developed by other teams. There is also opportunity to contribute to open source projects (like Wasmtime) that are key parts of the Compute story. Coordinate and communicate seamlessly with the team members and across other technical and product teams Manage projects from a technical lead role driving project progress and communicating project status to stakeholders Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements Be responsible for a large scale production system with extremely high performance and availability requirements You have at least 7 years of software development experience,
with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust. Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these: Experience with and interest in technical writing You will be required to be part of the on call rotation for the team. Work Location(s) & Travel
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This position is open to Hybrid and Work from home Locations. Remote, United States Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. We are also willing to consider remote candidates in the United States. 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. 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.
📌 Staff Platform Software Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Fastly
📍 Canada