Senior Principal Engineer - Compute Platform

April 18

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Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables the best of the web to thrive, and helps you deliver better online experiences.

CDN • Web Performance • Video and Streaming • Cloud Security • Load Balancing

501 - 1000

💰 $40M Series F on 2018-07

Description

• Drive the architecture of the Fastly Compute Platform • Maintain a broad understanding of critical systems and scaling platform infrastructure • Design, implement, and maintain critical Compute systems and features • Articulate technical strategy via design documents and enable outcome driven, collaborative discussions • Guide, share knowledge, and lead teams toward implementing cross functional systems • Mentor and provide regular feedback to engineers • Lead by example, be an active implementer and team member • Work with engineering and product leadership across the company • Help guide and debug the organization to successfully implement the vision • Partner with Senior Engineering leaders to build and execute in both internal and open source contexts

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on experience as an engineer building complex, reliable, and highly efficient systems • Recent experience developing applications that are deployed on bare metal servers • Recent experience with systems programming languages such as Rust, C or C++ • Strong communicator who can articulate and execute on broad technical vision • Collaborative leader and problem solving starting from first principles • Balances collaboration with avoiding design by committee or autocratic decision making • Experience traversing a matrixed organization to drive meaningful technical change • Customer centric mindset - primary users are developers! • Experience building software that makes efficient use of system resources to scale • Grounding in open source ecosystems, community specific tooling and trends • Proven experience building systems that are easily operated

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Family planning, mental health support, and Employee Assistance Program • Life, Disability, and Accident Insurance • Open vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave • 401(k) with company match and an Employee Stock Purchase Program • 10 paid local holidays and 11 paid company wellness days