Staff Engineer, Fastly
Control Systems
$211.4-253.6k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
Edge cloud platform
Be an early applicant
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$211.4-253.6k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- Significant domain-relevant engineering experience building highly reliable distributed systems. Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have at least 7 years of related experience
- A solid understanding of the Go programming language
- A pragmatic approach to legacy systems, including experience in or a willingness to learn Perl to support, troubleshoot, and enhance our core infrastructure
- The ability to drive and deliver complex projects that span multiple teams and require cross-organizational influence
- A communicative and empathetic teammate who works effectively in a remote environment and is comfortable with asynchronous workflows
- An adaptable problem-solver who learns from mistakes, navigates ambiguity with ease, and balances short-term delivery with long-term quality through thoughtful tradeoffs
Desirable
- A background writing production-level code using the Perl programming language
- Familiarity with containerization systems and platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker
- Exposure to monitoring solutions such as Prometheus and Grafana
What the job involves
- The Control Systems team translates customer intent into the configuration data that powers Fastly's edge
- Because our services are central to how every product and feature reaches the edge, this role offers a unique opportunity to partner with internal teams across the organization to shape, scale, and secure the core Fastly experience that our customers rely on every day
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will join a talented group of engineers who solve complex problems in high-availability systems within a supportive environment where teammates genuinely enjoy working together
- If you are a motivated engineer who thrives on solving interesting problems at scale while fostering a culture of high trust, mutual respect, and shared ownership, you’ll find a rewarding home here
- Support, deploy, and share responsibility for large scale Perl production systems that store and ship configuration changes to thousands of nodes globally
- Drive architectural and operational improvements by evolving complex legacy systems into maintainable, performant Go microservices
- Provide technical leadership of engineering projects, coordinate with project stakeholders, and motivate progress
- Collaborate across engineering teams to ensure our configuration systems meet the requirements for new features and capabilities
- Mentor and support other engineers, cultivating an environment of knowledge sharing, innovation, and teamwork within the engineering organization
- Participate in an on-call rotation
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Aug. 29, 2026
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 companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users and improves the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands. Ultimately, it enables clients to focus on growing their businesses rather than improving their customer experience.
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 its naming as a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms 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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