4 hours ago
Base Salary
$211k - $254k/yr
Responsibilities
- Write platform-level Rust code for back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services.
- Analyze and address performance and stability issues in high-scale systems.
- Own a large-scale production system with stringent performance and availability requirements.
- Manage technical projects, drive progress, and communicate status to stakeholders.
- Collaborate across technical and product teams and contribute to code reviews and team processes.
- Contribute to open source projects such as Wasmtime.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of software development experience, including at least 3 years in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust.
- Experience writing asynchronous and concurrent code.
- Ability and willingness to learn emerging technologies.
- Preferred experience includes multi-tenant security, multiprocess scheduling, memory management, systems-level optimization, technical writing, and open source contribution.
Benefits
- Hybrid or remote work is available in the United States, with preferred locations in San Francisco, Denver, or remote.
- Employees receive a comprehensive benefits package starting on the first day of employment, with offerings varying by country.
- The role may include eligibility for equity and discretionary bonus programs.
- The position requires availability during core business hours, preferably in Western or Mountain time zones, and participation in an on-call rotation.
- Travel may be required based on the role or manager request.
About Fastly
Fastly builds an edge cloud platform for developers and enterprises to deliver and secure web and streaming applications, including CDN, programmable edge compute, load balancing, and security products such as a next‑gen WAF, DDoS protection, and bot management. It sells usage‑based and subscription services to digital businesses; founded in 2011, headquartered in San Francisco, and publicly traded on the NYSE, with customers such as GitHub and The New York Times.