Solutions Architect, Fastly
$129.5-172.6k
Edge cloud platform
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Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$129.5-172.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in CDN and WAF technologies, including configuration, optimization, and troubleshooting
- Expert knowledge of HTTP and web application implementation
- Troubleshooting supporting protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, TLS)
- Basic coding knowledge, including having built projects in one of Go, JavaScript, or Rust
- Experience with customer-facing technical consultant
- Experience with project management, including analyzing a project's requirements, designing and documenting a solution, and delivering that to successful completion
- Created training materials and mentored junior team members
Desirable
- Experience in additional programming languages
- Written and deployed automated testing, ideally on top of continuous integration / continuous deployment systems
- Worked with infrastructure automation / configuration management systems
What the job involves
- We are a diverse, highly skilled, and passionate team that values sharing and collaboration
- We provide expert-level technical guidance to customers integrating our products into their application stacks
- This means we are working with the latest innovations in technology, learning about them, and using our experience, considering how they are best used
- Our engagement with customers starts with service onboarding, configuration migration, traffic go-live, and training
- We also continue to work with customers as they get on board, helping integrate our services with their applications to ensure customers get the most out of Fastly
- Our team comes from different backgrounds and locations
- As we grow we look for people who can bring their own unique character and talent
- We work flexibly, with a focus on delivering quality service to customers
- Solutions Architects join our team with a wealth of experiences
- Sharing their skills and wisdom, as well as learning from colleagues progressing towards technical, or leadership roles
- Work with new customers to integrate Fastly into their systems during their on-boarding
- Design and build technical solutions on Fastly, using VCL / Go / Rust / Javascript
- Provide existing customers guidance on additional features and performance tuning
- Write and present training materials to customers and internal teams
- Work with Sales Engineers to build Proof Of Concepts for prospective customers
- Be the Subject Matter Expert on the Fastly Delivery and Compute platform
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date*: May 3, 2025
- Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants
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
- Competitive PTO Policies
- Remote or Hybrid Work
- Generous time off for parental leave
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Mental health resources
- 401(k)/retirement plans
- Employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP)
- Reimbursements for learning and development programs
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Artur Bergman
(Chief Architect and Executive Chairperson)Served as the company's CEO until changing roles in 2020. Previously served as CTO at Wikia, and was a Board Member at OpenID Foundation
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