Senior Engineer - Network Management Platform

📋 Job Overview

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. Come join us.

Posting Open Date: Reposted - Sept. 8, 2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Oct. 6, 2026

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

🏢 About Fastly

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. Come join us.

🎯 The Role

The Network Management Platform team at Fastly is responsible for the suite of services and infrastructure that store and deploy all of Fastly’s network configuration, this is a mission critical team that shepherd’s our fleet’s view of the world. We’re looking to add a Senior Software Engineer to the team. In this role you’ll be a key player in our interactions with the infrastructure and operations teams that depend on us. You’ll work closely with our partners to set the team direction and deliver the next generation of features and functionality that enable Fastly to operate an ever expanding global fleet.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Work with our peers across the company to architect and deliver the next generation of features which manage and deploy network configuration
• Design and deliver features to support infrastructure provisioning as Fastly’s fleet grows in size and complexity
• Develop and improve software development processes including testing, CI/CD, etc
• Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise and contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
• Mentor and support other engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, innovation, and collaboration within the team

📌 Required Qualifications

• Significant related professional experience developing software. Most Senior Engineers at Fastly have more than 5 years of related experience.
• 3 years of experience in building and managing containerized applications and container orchestration platforms like Docker and Kubernetes
• 3 years of experience with automating public cloud workloads (GCP, AWS), and using IaC solutions such as Terraform
• Experience in software development and DevOps best practices
• Track record of writing resilient and maintainable Python or another modern language

⭐ Desirable Experience

• A practical understanding of, and experience with, networking concepts at scale
• Experience provisioning and configuring network infrastructure
• A background in infrastructure provisioning and deployment concepts, ie ZTP
• Experience with configuration management software such as ansible and chef
• Experience with compiled languages, preferably Go
• Knowledge of scalable and distributed key-value stores and sql databases

🎁 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 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

The estimated salary range for this position in the US is $181,220 to $217,464.

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.