Staff Software Engineer, Fastly

• Hands-on experience developing highly available, reliable REST APIs — Most Staff level engineers at Fastly have at least 7 years of related experience
• Professional experience with Go (golang), Java, and/or C++
• Strong understanding of service-oriented architectures, and design patterns
• Experience building global-scale distributed systems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A great teammate with strong collaboration skills who is humble and empathetic
• Experience working with teams distributed across different time zones
• Ability to learn new skills quickly and share what you have learned with the broader team

Desirable

• The Customer Usage Data Platform team maintains a global, real time pipeline to measure Fastly customer usage across the Internet
• This pipeline is used for business and operational decisions and directly supports company revenue
• The team has experienced an order of magnitude growth in data volume over the past three years
• We maintain multi-region storage and satisfy low latency requirements for Fastly’s real-time observability API and low loss message delivery for historical observability, revenue systems, and operational visibility
• As a Staff Software Engineer you will lead the design and development for highly-available, scalable, distributed systems to enable Fastly to meet the challenges of sustained growth
• Take ownership of features from planning to deployment, facilitating review and discussion with peers and partners, and ensuring features as implemented meet product requirements
• Work collaboratively with customer support, solutions, product, and sales teams to produce data and APIs that unlock additional revenues
• Clearly communicate upward and outward to articulate trade-offs, set and adjust expectations with your manager and partners
• Collaborate with your teammates through design discussions, code and design reviews, advocate for software development best practices, and mentor junior teammates
• Join our on-call rotation to ensure the data from our global customers is available within agreed upon SLAs
• This position will require you to be available during core North American business hours and occasional nights and weekends for on call rotation

• Anticipated Posting Close Date: Sept. 30, 2024 (Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants)