Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Fastly
Network Management Platform
$181.2-226.5k
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Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$181.2-226.5k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- In order to be successful in this role, you must have 5 years of experience operating highly available distributed systems and supporting mission critical infrastructure
- You have 3 years of experience in building and managing containerized applications and container orchestration platforms like Docker and Kubernetes
- You have at least 3 years of experience with automating public cloud workloads (GCP, AWS), and using IaC solutions such as Terraform
- You have a minimum of 3 years of experience with build and packaging tools, CI systems, release engineering practices and CD platforms
- Experience in software development and DevOps best practices
- Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours
Desirable
- You have experience with configuration management software such as ansible and chef
- You have experience with compiled languages, preferably Go
- You have knowledge of scalable and distributed key-value stores and sql databases
What the job involves
- The Network Management Platform Team is looking for a talented Site Reliability and/or System Development Engineer with experience in designing, building and operating distributed systems that are scalable, fault tolerant and easy to manage
- Architect, build, deploy and maintain robust infrastructure using public cloud providers to run diverse types of workloads
- Maintain and improve configuration management processes, CI/CD pipelines, utilities, and tooling
- Consider scalability, security, performance, reliability and ease-of-use in the design of the services you develop and support
- Build automation that reduces manual interaction and promotes continuous improvement
- Foster relationships with other teams to understand and provide end-user needs
Our take
Internet users around the world have come to expect personalized, real-time digital experiences, but delivering these quickly and securely, while maintaining quality, can be a difficult task for businesses.
Fastly enables the companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users — improving the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands, and enabling clients to focus on growing their businesses.
The company has helped several high-profile businesses, including Reddit, Pinterest, Stripe, EPIC Games, and more. Its offering is well-regarded in the space, demonstrated by it being named a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023 report.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2019
$40m
SERIES F
Jul 2018
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $259m
Company benefits
- Parental support and beyond: We support our families by offering generous time off for parental leave. And beyond that, we work hard to build a culture that allows for all employees to have the life outside work that they desire year round.
- Health and wellness: Your well-being matters here. Our health plans offer a variety of options, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, mental health resources, and more.
- Invest in your future: We offer 401(k)/retirement plans, employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP), and reimbursements for learning and development programs — so we can support your ongoing growth and success.
- Keep learning and growing: Helping people go further means nurturing their talent. Through annual reimbursements for employee learning activities, regular hangouts and advice from our Senior Staff, talks from industry leaders, and cultural events — we offer tons of opportunities for people to learn. And we’re always looking to grow as a company, too: we collect employee engagement and experience data annually and leverage our Employee Experience Champion Network to understand employee feedback, so we can keep improving.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kip Compton
(CEO)Kip joined the Fastly team in 2024 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2025. Prior to this, he was an SVP of Strategy & Business Development/Networking at Cisco.
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