Senior Software Engineer, Fastly

• You have at least 5 years of backend software development experience, with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust, alternately in C/C++ and some knowledge of functional programming
• You have a minimum of 2 years of experience with distributed or cloud systems
• Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code

Desirable

• This team builds the platform for Fastly’s Compute product – a new way to run serverless code with blazing fast startup times and strong isolation guarantees
• Leveraging the WebAssembly standards and toolchains, the team develops a high-scale daemon that safely hosts customer code and connects to a large and growing variety of Fastly back-end services
• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join this multifaceted team and help scale our hosting infrastructure
• In addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work, this role will involve cross-team collaboration, and designing high quality APIs for our customers to use services developed by other teams
• There is also ample opportunity to contribute to open source projects (like Wasmtime) that are key parts of the Compute story
• Write platform-level code in Rust that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
• Collaborate with other teams at Fastly on interfaces to Compute services
• Design and implement both low- and high-level APIs for interacting with edge services
• Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
• Be responsible for a large scale production system with extremely high performance and availability requirements
• Contribute to the Rust and WebAssembly open source ecosystems

• Anticipated Posting Close Date: 9/23/24