Senior Software Engineer, Fastly
Monetization
$167.8-209.7k
We do not support relocation
2 days a week in office
Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$167.8-209.7k
We do not support relocation
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- Experience programming in Go - most Senior Engineers at Fastly have at least 5 years of relevant coding experience
- Experience with a relational database is required and nosql database is a plus
- Experience writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
- Experience with complex, large scale production systems that support the needs of a rapidly growing business
- Experience in projects related to low-latency data collection and analysis
- Experience collaborating across groups and functions, including Product teams, to understand business needs
- Experience delivering business-impacting software that meets the needs of these disparate groups
- An understanding of the tradeoffs and challenges involved in building, operating and maintaining scalable and reliable data pipelines
- Experience mentoring, guiding, and coaching team members
- Ability to learn new skills and share what you’ve learned with the broader team
Desirable
- Experience with billing or finance systems (e.g. recurring billing engines, ratings engines, financial forecasting tools) and their data requirements
- Expertise in designing, analyzing, profiling, and solving issues in large-scale distributed systems
- Ruby or Java development and interest in learning new tech
- Relational and non-relational storage systems
What the job involves
- The Fastly Monetization Engineering team is looking for an experienced, highly collaborative backend software engineer to evolve, design, and build systems & APIs that are part of Fastly’s Billing Platform
- You’ll work across functions to design and create tools and systems that improve visibility and access to handle Fastly’s rapidly-growing family of products
- You will also help expand our ability to gain value from the data pipelines powering our real-time logging, stats, and control plane applications
- Design, develop, maintain, and test broad systems & tools as part of the Billing Platform
- Work directly with stakeholders and the Product team to find and evaluate opportunities to remove barriers for groups at Fastly to create and sell new product lines
- Design systems that allow internal teams from across the organization to get the data they need to operate with a focus on stability, performance & scalability
- Develop design and architecture documents as a way of collaborating across groups in the design of new systems and APIs
- Lead and participate in the building, deployment, and maintenance of the software systems that collect, transport, and make data available to the Fastly organization
- Make your support available to your team when and where they need it — a time zone compatible with the continental US, where your team will be, is a must for this role
- Participate in an on-call rotation
Application process
- Posting Open Date: July 15, 2024
- Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Aug. 15, 2024
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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