Staff Engineer, Fastly

• You have a minimum of 7 years of Software Engineering experience with at least 3 years of experience with systems-level programming, such as programming languages, compilers, runtimes, or operating systems
• A willingness to dive into and learn bleeding-edge and developing technologies
• This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends are required for on-call support

Desirable

• The WebAssembly team is focused on the technology that powers Fastly’s Compute platform – an advanced serverless platform built on open standards which runs on our global edge network
• It’s designed to address the requirements of modern application development by empowering customers to run code in a highly secure execution environment with microsecond cold start times, at scale, on the edge
• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly with the team members and across other technical and product teams
• Contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
• Manage projects from a technical lead role driving project progress and communicating project status to stakeholders
• While we work in multiple programming languages, a large portion of our tooling is in Rust
• Your day to day area of focus will vary, depending on project need and skills. The general areas you may work on are
• The Wasmtime runtime environment
• Compilers (such as TinyGo or Cranelift)
• Working with open source communities, such as the Bytecode Alliance or the W3C WebAssembly Working Group to design and implement new standards for WebAssembly
• Language runtimes for Wasm (such as StarlingMonkey, or the Python runtime)

• Anticipated Posting Close Date*:12/2/2024 *Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants