Principal Software Engineer, Fastly

• You have at least 7 years of production experience as a software engineer with at least 2 of those working on networking/distributed/cloud systems
• You have been a principal contributor or a tech lead with the ability to influence the direction of a customer facing product
• You have at least 3 years of experience with either C or Rust
• Formal CS education is not required; demonstrable experience is sufficient
• This position will require you to be available during core business hours

Desirable

• The Edge Delivery team maintains Varnish, Fastly’s core caching platform
• Leveraging C and Rust standards and toolchains, the team develops a high-scale daemon and supporting services that execute customer configurations and connects to a large and growing variety of Fastly back-end services
• We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join this crucial team and help scale our hosting infrastructure
• In addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work, this role will involve extensive cross-team collaboration as well as the design of high quality APIs to enable our customers to utilize services developed by other teams at Fastly
• Lead and facilitate collaboration with other teams at Fastly on interfaces to Varnish and related technologies like VCL
• Design and implement both low- and high-level APIs for interacting with edge services
• Write C and Rust code that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
• Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
• Participate in and help coordinate incident response and mitigation