Staff SRE, Fastly
Data Reliability, ElasticSearch
$181.2-226.5k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
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Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$181.2-226.5k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- Experience maintaining and building large (100s of TB), highly available, and reliable Elasticsearch clusters on bare-metal servers
- Understanding of the challenges involved in managing, operating, and maintaining scalable and reliable streaming data storage systems
- Experience in Linux administration
- Experience with metric collection and monitoring tools like Prometheus or services like DataDog
- Experience developing automation tools in Go or Python that are performant & easily maintainable
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic with a thoughtful, customer-driven approach
- Strong documentation skills and a willingness to mentor others
- You have experience working with teams distributed across different time zones
- This position will require you to be available during core business hours as well as occasional nights and weekends as required for on-call support rotation
Desirable
- Experience with container technology, Kubernetes/Docker/Helm, or similar
- Knowledge of one or more configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
- Knowledge of one or more storage systems (MySQL, ClickHouse, RDS, BigQuery, BigTable, etc.)
What the job involves
- The Data Reliability team is responsible for supporting the infrastructure, orchestration, and reliability needs of some of Fastly’s most data-intensive applications as well as the data storage solutions for the Fastly control plane such as MySQL, ClickHouse, and Redis
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be an integral member of the team and will lead the migration of the Elasticsearch tier
- You will partner with and support other engineering teams at Fastly by providing them with a platform that enables effective and reliable delivery of high-quality, high-throughput, globally distributed data systems and products
- Assume responsibility for managing and supporting our Elasticsearch clusters, including planning and creating new clusters
- Design, develop & maintain automated tools to enhance the maintenance workflow of the clusters
- Provide mentorship and guidance to your teammates generally, and specifically in all aspects concerning Elasticsearch
- Collaborate with your team to offer support for various data storage services
- Work with cross functional product & engineering teams to deliver new products at scale
- Improve performance of data access through query optimization, etc
- Partner and support engineering teams with everything from reliability, observability, and setting SLOs, to solving complex code issues
- Monitor, operate, and provision infrastructure to enable rapid deployment and resilient operation in a large-scale Linux environment
- Anticipate the reliability, scalability, and performance needs of Data Engineering teams at Fastly
- Participate in on-call rotation
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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