Software Engineer, Fastly
Bot Management and Anti-Fraud
$123.3-154.2k
Plus equity and discretionary bonus programs available
More information about location
Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$123.3-154.2k
Plus equity and discretionary bonus programs available
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 a minimum of 1 year of hands-on production experience in back end development with Go, Rust, or C (Go/Rust preferred)
- You have a minimum of 1 year of experience with commercial cloud technology (GCP, AWS) and delivering software in an IaaC culture (CI, test automation; Terraform experience preferred)
- Experience developing tests and test automation
- Good understanding of service-oriented architectures, microservices, and design patterns
Desirable
- Exposure to analysis and problem solving on large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with CDNs, proxies, or edge computing technology
What the job involves
- The Fastly Security Products Engineering team develops and operates next generation security capabilities in the Fastly and Signal Sciences platforms
- We’re looking for a software engineer to develop and maintain our bot management products
- You’ll work closely with other software engineers, product managers, and data scientists to implement new features and address real-world bot attacks
- And help ensure our security products and systems are robust, scalable, and secure along the way
- The software you develop will power existing and future bot management and anti-fraud products at Fastly
- As a Security Product Software Engineer, you will help us shape patterns, standards, and methodologies for the engineering team
- Write clean, modular, test-driven code to implement features that enables customers to manage bots
- Develop and improve software development and analytic infrastructure used for research, development, testing and deployment of production systems
- Collaborate with software engineers, security operations staff, and data scientists to develop solutions to bot management problems
- Contribute to code reviews, documentation and other team processes
- Troubleshoot and debug issues with production code; participate in on-call rotation
- Collaborate with your teammates through code, design reviews and other engineering activities
Application process
- A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying
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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