Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Fastly
Network Operations
$195.7-244.6k
Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$195.7-244.6k
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 8 years of experience building or operating networking/distributed/cloud systems
- You have at least 8 years of hands on experience with design and development of software components on Unix/Linux platforms
- You have at least 5 years of experience in writing elegant and maintainable Rust, Python and/or Go code
- Experience with bootstrapping new engineering initiatives. Familiarity with taking an idea from inception to implementation
- Comfortable occasionally working with ambiguity. Able to analyze requirements and build out solutions
- Real-world experience in the protocols and practices that make up the fabric of the global internet, including IP, BGP, Anycast, and DNS
- Experience of DevOps practices and CI / CD pipelines (ie. Git, Jenkins, Ansible)
- Understanding of highly available & complex systems and how they operate at scale
Desirable
- Previous experience building and leading technical teams
- Experience across cloud environments (i.e., GCP, AWS or Azure)
What the job involves
- Design, build, and maintain the software & infrastructure that powers Fastly’s Edge Cloud Platform
- Help advance SRE principles and fundamentals. Provide technical leadership to other members of the organization
- Reduce toil. Increase scalability by building self-healing automation to reduce manual interaction, including network & system configuration, capacity & performance management, and traffic engineering
- Advocate for our customers while ensuring the operational stability of our network. Look for areas of opportunity and partner with engineering teams in the scoping and prioritization of their roadmaps and software solutions
- Develop innovative ways of monitoring performance of the platform, with focus on the experience of end users on the Internet. Catch and remediate potential issues before they develop into impacting events
- Respond to both internal & external facing incidents. Use learnings from these events to help shape processes, automation and tooling to reduce future occurrences
- Participate in on-call rotation for critical after-hours incidents
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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