Senior Software Engineer, Fastly
$155.4-194.2k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
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Edge cloud platform
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Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$155.4-194.2k
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
- You have at least 3 years of production experience in back end development experience with Go, Rust, C or C++
- Strong interest in application security
- Strong software development and testing skills, with an appreciation for correctness
- Understanding of what makes valuable observability with metrics, logging and tracing
- Experience working in a collaborative, distributed team environment
- Knowledge of HTTP and related networking protocols
- An ability and desire to automate everything
What the job involves
- The Security Products group is responsible for developing a range of security related products at Fastly
- As a part of this group, you will be working with technology brought in through the acquisition of Signal Sciences, specifically Smartparse and other attack detection systems in Fastly's NGWAF
- The stack is written in Go (“Golang”) and runs as both a service and deployed to customer's on premises servers
- You will collaborate across product and engineering teams as you guide and develop the next phase of attack detection
- Write clean, modular, test-driven code to implement features from a customer-driven product roadmap that enables customers to protect their web applications
- Coordinate and communicate with product managers and other engineers on the team and across other technical and product teams
- Contribute to code reviews, documentation and other team processes
- Improve, expand, and automate our testing frameworks so problems are surfaced faster
- Support sales engineers and customer security operations who are selling and supporting your wor
- Explore new approaches to detection such as statistical pattern recognition or machine learning
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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