Senior Engineer, Fastly
Monetization
$181.2-217.5k
Edge cloud platform
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Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$181.2-217.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-on experience designing and building reliable, large-scale backend systems - most Senior Engineers at Fastly have at least 5 years of relevant experience
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language, with the ability to pick up new languages and frameworks quickly
- Experience designing and implementing new services or systems from scratch (greenfield development)
- Experience with a relational database is required and nosql database is a big plus
- Experience writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
- A track record of taking ownership of projects (not just individual tasks) and driving them to successful outcomes
- Experience authoring technical proposals and design documents to align stakeholders and guide implementation
- Experience working across teams and functions to understand business needs and deliver software that meets them
- Experience mentoring, guiding, and growing other engineers
- Comfort operating in ambiguity. You can assess feasibility, identify constraints, and formulate a realistic plan even when the problem isn’t fully defined
- Ability to learn new skills and share what you’ve learned with the broader team
Desirable
- Experience with Go and/or React
- Experience with AI/LLM technologies, recommendation systems, data science, or data modeling
- Experience with or interest in Rust
- Experience with event-driven architectures (ex: Kafka, message buses) and distributed systems at scale
What the job involves
- The Fastly Growth Engineering team is looking for an experienced, highly collaborative full-stack software engineer to evolve, design, build, and own systems & APIs that drive customer growth across Fastly’s product portfolio
- Our team owns systems that help Fastly customers discover and adopt the right products for their use cases
- You will design and build new services from the ground up, collaborate closely with product and platform teams, and take projects from ambiguous problem statements through to production
- Design, build, and own new backend services and APIs end-to-end, from technical proposal through implementation, testing, and production rollout
- Contribute to frontend experiences that surface the team’s services to customers
- Take ambiguous or broadly-scoped problems and turn them into well-defined technical plans that the team can execute on
- Author design and architectural documents and use them to drive alignment across engineering and product teams
- Collaborate with internal platform teams, product managers, and stakeholders across the organization the understand needs and deliver impactful solutions
- Consider stability, performance, and scalability in your designs and in the guidance you provide to the team
- Mentor and grow other engineers on the team through code review, pairing, and technical leadership
- Participate in an on-call rotation
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date: 08/03/26
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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