Posting Open Date: Dec. 11, 2024

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Jan 6, 2025

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

Software Engineer – Edge Applications

Fastly is looking for a Software Engineer to join its Edge Application Engineering team. You will work primarily on the Fanout product. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining new features for these products in Rust and C++. You will be an integral part of the team responsible for Edge Applications at Fastly. You will be expected to ensure that all of these products meet the highest standards of quality, reliability, and customer/developer experience.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop, test, and maintain new features in Rust for a variety of products Fastly offers.
• Design and implement new Fastly features and enhancements for these products, based on customer feedback and modern best practices.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve issues within the products.
• Ensure timely and effective solutions to maintain high-quality customer experiences.
• Work closely with cloud engineers, product managers, and customer support teams to understand user requirements and address issues related to the products.
• Maintain documentation for the products, including usage guides, best practices, and troubleshooting resources.

What We’re Looking For: 

• At least 2 years of experience with systems programming languages (Rust, C/C++, Go)
• At least 1 year of experience working with large scale systems.
• Experience at creating clear, concise, and comprehensive technical solutions.
• Experience working directly with customer support teams, and directly with customers, to diagnose and troubleshoot problems.

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these: 

• Cloud/serverless platforms
• Publish/subscribe messaging systems
• Web/proxy server development
• Distributed networking systems
• Protocols (HTTP, Websockets, gRPC, etc)
• Open source Infrastructure as Code projects or technical communities
• Software testing frameworks and code coverage analysis tools

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as needed for on-call support. 

This position is open to Hybrid And Remote Work Locations.

The preferred locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York, NY

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.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $143,860.00 - $172,632.00 

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.

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 2025, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.