Staff Software Engineer, Fastly
Compute Runtimes & SDKs
$195.7-234.9k
Edge cloud platform
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Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$195.7-234.9k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- At least 8+ years of Software Engineering experience building language runtimes or doing language design
- Expert in a C++ codebase
- A keen sense of what a good developer experience looks like and a drive to deliver it
- A willingness to dive into and learn bleeding-edge and developing technologies and mentor others
- A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic with a thoughtful, user-driven approach
- This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as needed to support the on-call rotation
Desirable
- Experience in platform or runtime development
- Technical leadership experience in open source communities
- Experience with Rust
- Experience with Python
- Experience in Wasm
What the job involves
- The SDK team is a part of the Compute Platform organization, and the WebAssembly team. You will focus on the technology that powers Fastly’s Compute platform – an advanced serverless platform built on open standards which runs on our global edge network.
- It’s designed to address the requirements of modern application development by empowering customers to run code in a highly secure execution environment with microsecond cold start times, at scale, on the edge. While we work in multiple programming languages, most of the work for this role, at least initially, will be C++, with some Rust development
- Focus on Fastly’s Javascript SDK & the StarlingMonkey JS runtime
- Stay ahead of the latest JavaScript and WinterCG standards, implementing them for StarlingMonkey and supporting them on Fastly’s compute platform
- Your day to day area of focus will vary, depending on project need and skills. The general areas you may work on are:
- Language-specific SDK’s for wasm and improving their feature completeness and performance
- Working with open source communities
- Language runtimes for Wasm (such as StarlingMonkey, or the Python runtime)
- Coordinate and communicate seamlessly with the team members and across other technical and product teams
- Contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
- Manage projects from a technical lead role driving project progress and communicating project status to stakeholders
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date*: April 19, 2025
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
- Competitive PTO Policies
- Remote or Hybrid Work
- Generous time off for parental leave
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Mental health resources
- 401(k)/retirement plans
- Employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP)
- Reimbursements for learning and development programs
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Artur Bergman
(Chief Architect and Executive Chairperson)Served as the company's CEO until changing roles in 2020. Previously served as CTO at Wikia, and was a Board Member at OpenID Foundation
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