Software Development Engineer - API Services - 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 Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

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Software Engineer - API Services

We are looking for a hardworking and creative Software Engineer with experience and/or interest in developing highly-available, scalable, reliable and cloud-native software systems. The API Services team is responsible for evolving and supporting Fastly’s APIs by developing frameworks, standards and tools that elevate our resilience, scalability and availability. As a Software Engineer you will work on features or components for key business initiatives focused on providing a delightful experience to internal and external API customers.

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hour & participate in on call rotation as needed

What You'll Do

• Develop components or features with direct impact to internal and external Fastly’s APIs
• Write code in Go
• Work with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes
• Perform cloud-native infrastructure changes and development
• Collaborate with your teammates through code, design reviews and make data-driven decisions
• Implement best practices and automation for systems and processes within Fastly’s Control Plane 
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Contribute to Fastly’s core infrastructure and platform needs

What We're Looking For

Basic Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing applications in Go
• Experience with cloud native applications or with workloads in any of the major cloud providers
• Good understanding of service-oriented architectures, microservices, and design patterns
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic
• Experience working with remote teams

Preferred Qualifications:

We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. It would be an added bonus if you have experience in ANY of these:

• Experience developing applications in PERL
• Experience with infrastructure as a code (e.g., Terraform, etc.)
• Experience building and operating highly available, reliable, distributed, cloud-native systems
• Experience working or supporting API Gateways
• Experience supporting SLIs and SLOs
• Experience working with metric collection systems such as Prometheus, etc.
• Experience implementing caching mechanisms

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements

This hybrid position will be based out of one of Fastly’s US office locations - New York, NY; Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; or Los Angeles, CA.  Fastly's hybrid model allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

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

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $123,330 to $154,170 

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), an open 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 2023, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days. 

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. 
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901.  

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