Staff Engineer – API Services

🕒 May 19

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $211.4k - $253.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Fastly

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2011

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $40M Series F on 2018-07

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Telecommunications

Fastly is a cutting-edge technology company specializing in enhancing web and application performance with smarter security features. Its platform offers solutions for faster content delivery, DDoS protection, and intelligent caching for AI workloads, thus catering to top Fortune 100 brands. Fastly delivers improved user experiences through its powerful, software-defined edge cloud platform that emphasizes programmability and control. The company also provides comprehensive cybersecurity tools and is recognized as a leader in edge delivery services. Fastly supports industries such as ecommerce, streaming media, financial services, and digital publishing, offering faster, secure, and reliable services to meet diverse industry needs. Additionally, Fastly is noted for its developer-friendly environment, making it a suitable choice for businesses seeking innovation and flexibility in content delivery networks (CDNs).

📋 Description

• Lead the design and development for highly-available, scalable, and distributed systems • Mentor engineers across the team in developing applications in Go • Drive significant process and architecture improvements • Define and communicate the long-term technical roadmap for API Services • Anticipate, design, and implement major architectural changes • Define and champion Platform Engineering best practices • Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team • Participate in an on-call rotation

🎯 Requirements

• at least 7 years of related development experience • Hands-on experience developing applications in GoLang • Solid experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP) • containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) • infrastructure as code (Terraform) • Track record of process improvements through automation • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic) • Deep expertise and mastery of distributed systems and microservices architecture • Proven ability to independently drive and deliver large, complex, and ambiguous projects • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Experience working with teams distributed across different time zones

🏖️ Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance • Family planning • mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program • Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident) • Flexible Vacation policy • up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave • 401(k) (including company match) • Employee Stock Purchase Program • 11 paid local holidays • 12 paid company wellness days