2 months ago
Base Salary
$181k - $217k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure across Fastly datacenters, public clouds, and hybrid cloud/on-premise environments.
- Scale and manage production Kubernetes clusters and platform services across multiple regions, clouds, and datacenters.
- Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and cross-application dependency issues across the full technology stack.
- Deploy and support complex third-party and internally developed applications.
- Write automation and tools for maintaining and deploying servers, services, and applications.
- Collaborate with internal platform users and evolve platform operations using sound engineering practices.
- Drive infrastructure and platform projects independently and collaboratively across time zones.
- Configure access and manage users, accounts, and resources in multi-cloud environments.
- Provide on-call support during occasional nights and weekends as needed.
Requirements
- More than 5 years of related experience is typical for Senior Engineers at Fastly, with experience running highly available systems and distributed infrastructure.
- Experience designing fault-tolerant services across geographies and deploying and managing multi-tiered services.
- Strong understanding of Linux systems, including use of tcpdump and tracing tools.
- Experience building and operating production-grade Kubernetes clusters across multiple regions, clouds, or datacenters.
- Experience with CNCF tooling such as Prometheus, Flux, and Helm.
- Programming experience with Go and Python, including modifying large codebases and building medium-sized tools such as Kubernetes controllers and Prometheus exporters.
- Experience with infrastructure and configuration management tooling, including Terraform.
- Experience provisioning and managing users, accounts, and resources with AWS and GCP, including EC2, S3, and GKE.
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling, infrastructure pipelines, GitHub, and pull-request workflows.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, and Grafana.
- Experience working effectively on distributed teams across time zones.
- Experience using AI tooling such as Claude Code and creating successful skills or agents to improve individual, team, or company capabilities.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance in the US.
- Family planning support, mental health support, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Life, disability, and accident insurance.
- Flexible vacation policy and up to 18 accrued paid sick-leave days.
- 401(k) with company match and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- For 2026, 11 paid local holidays and 12 paid company wellness days.
- Largely hybrid work model with flexibility to split time between office and home; remote US candidates may be considered.
- Preferred locations are San Francisco, Denver, and New York, with travel required as needed by the role or manager.
- Core business-hours availability and occasional nights and weekends are required for on-call coverage.
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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.