Staff Engineer, Fastly
Edge Protocols
$211.4-253.6k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Program
Edge cloud platform
Be an early applicant
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$211.4-253.6k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- Proven ability to design & implement reliable, scalable, low latency systems. Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have at least 7 years of domain relevant engineering experience
- A collaborative mindset with experience working across cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and innovation
- Significant production experience with coding in C, C++, and/or Rust
- Proven ability to mentor and support the growth of engineers, both within a specific area of expertise and more broadly
- Experience with Linux systems and network programming
- Hands-on experience in building distributed infrastructure and maintaining it over time
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear and comprehensive documentation
- There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US and Canada
Desirable
- Web/Internet protocols such as HTTP, TLS, DNS, TCP/IP, UDP, QUIC
- Understanding of how customers will interact with features you develop
- Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team and highly available environments
- Proficient in Perl, Go, or similar high level languages
What the job involves
- The Edge Protocols Team develops software that interacts with both sides of Fastly, front and back - handling every incoming client request to Fastly and talking to customers’ websites
- Projects range from implementing new protocols, efficient load balancing, routing among the edge nodes, defending customers from attacks, security enhancements, privacy products and more
- We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer passionate about applying their talents to make the Internet fast and secure
- Write, test, and deploy both C and Rust code
- Enhance, maintain and optimize network software that implements protocols including TLS, HTTP, QUIC, etc
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to shape a clear technical roadmap - prioritizing key initiatives and proactively identifying and mitigating risks - to deploy, support, troubleshoot, and deliver features to customers
- Contribute to open source projects such as h2o and picotls
- Mentor and support the professional growth of engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, innovation, and collaboration within the team
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date*: July 10, 2026
- If you think you might be a fit please apply! 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 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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