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.
🏢 About Fastly
We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
🎯 The Role
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.
✅ Key Responsibilities
Coordinate and communicate seamlessly with the team members and across other technical and product teams
Contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
Manage projects from a technical lead role driving project progress and communicating project status to stakeholders
Write platform-level code in Rust that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
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
📌 Required Qualifications
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
A willingness to dive into and learn bleeding-edge and developing technologies
⭐ Desirable Experience
Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems
Experience with multiprocess scheduling and memory management
Experience with systems-level optimization
Experience with and interest in technical writing
History of open source contribution
🎁 Benefits
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs. We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. 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.
