Principal Engineer, Fastly

• The ideal candidate will care deeply about providing other engineers with a seamless release experience, and have a deep understanding of what engineers care about, how they ship code, and what world-class delivery infrastructure looks like
• 10+ years of related professional platform engineering experience, including designing and operating distributed systems in production
• Experience building internal developer platforms or “paved roads” at scale (e.g., service catalogs, self‑service infrastructure, standardized delivery pipelines)
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross‑functional technical initiatives with broad organizational impact
• Strong systems design and architecture skills with a pragmatic approach to tradeoffs, risk management, and incremental delivery
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following languages: Ruby, Python, Go
• Experience with Linux and containerization, particularly with Docker & orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Expertise with automation tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Dagger
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks such as Chef, Terraform, Ansible, etc
• Knowledge of source code control management systems and configuration management (i.e. Git, GitHub, etc) and code branching/merging strategies
• Experience with a Cloud-based environment, particularly AWS and/or GCP. Both would be ideal!
• Good understanding of quality control and test automation in agile-based continuous integration environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders

Desirable

• We are looking for a Principal Release Engineer to join Fastly’s Release Engineering team
• The Release Engineer is responsible for the set-up, maintenance and ongoing development of continuous build / integration and deployment infrastructure
• In this role you will create and maintain fully automated CI build processes for multiple environments, including our global edge cache fleet, internal applications, and applications hosted in AWS and GCP
• Design, build, and operate release tooling across building, packaging, signing, artifact management, and deploying software
• Drive initiatives that make our engineers happier and more productive by reducing lead time for changes
• Collaborate with development and SRE teams to develop policies, standards, guidelines, governance and related guidance for CI/D operations
• Support developers from with build automation, merge resolution, CI, test automation, deployment based on tools usage and policies, standards
• Troubleshoot issues along the CI/D pipeline
• Participate in on-call support rotation