Senior Engineer, Fastly
Production Cloud and Container Services
$181.2-217.5k
+ 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
$181.2-217.5k
+ 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
- Experience running high availability systems and supporting distributed infrastructure. Most Senior level Engineers at Fastly have more than 5 years of related experience
- You have designed services with fault tolerance and across geographies
- You have deployed and managed multi-tiered services
- Understanding of Linux systems, high and low level. You have used tcpdump and tracing tools
- Experience building and operating production-grade kubernetes clusters in multiple regions, clouds or data centers. You have experience with tooling in the CNCF space, such as: prometheus, flux, helm, etc
- Experience with programming languages such as Go and Python. You can read code and reason about what it does. You can write code within an existing large code base such as adding features. You can create medium-sized programs from scratch such as custom kubernetes controllers, custom prometheus exporters, and building tooling to help manage infrastructure
- Experience with infrastructure and configuration management tooling. You have used Terraform to manage infrastructure
- Experience provisioning and managing users and resources with cloud providers such as AWS and GCP. You have provisioned users and accounts using both graphical user interfaces and infrastructure as code frameworks. You have experience provisioning components on public cloud and understand how they work together in creating a multi-tiered service. You have deployed and managed services built on top of public cloud components such as EC2, S3, and GKE
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling. You can iterate infrastructure via pipelines through code changes. You have experience using Github including creating and reviewing pull requests
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog and Grafana
- Experience working on a distributed team. You have experience collaborating across timezones. You can articulate challenges of distributed teams and how you mitigate them
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to accelerate your work and enable new capabilities. You have used tooling like Claude Code and created skills or agents with demonstrated success in unlocking you, your team, and/or the company to achieve more
What the job involves
- Fleet Operations and Production Engineering at Fastly is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud and Container Services team. This role is focused on helping to scale and manage Fastly’s Kubernetes based platform for control plane services
- This platform is built on top of multiple public cloud services and contains many Kubernetes ecosystem components. We’re working to scale out our platform to support growth and at the same time evolve to address new business priorities
- A successful candidate will help expand our platform feature set, support existing users and onboard new services, and drive efficiency while maintaining a secure platform
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure (cloud, Fastly datacenter) to enable reliable and rapid deployment. This includes effective monitoring and resilient operations in a large-scale multi-cloud and hybrid cloud / on-premise environment. The majority of workloads are containerized but some are using native cloud services such as compute and storage
- Diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues across the stack: application, operating system, network, 3rd party services and APIs, including cross-application dependencies
- Deploy and support complex 3rd party and internally developed applications
- Write tools to automate maintenance and deployment of servers, services, and applications
- Collaborate with internal users and continually evolve the platform and its operations using solid engineering practices
- Drive projects sometimes independently and sometimes collaboratively across time zones
- Configure access and manage operations within a multi-cloud environment
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date: Oct. 23, 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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