Staff UI Software Engineer, Fastly
Product Enablement
$181.2-226.5k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$181.2-226.5k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- ~6+ years developing and maintaining robust user experiences using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
- An interest in micro frontend architecture
- Experience with strongly typed programming languages like TypeScript
- Experience working with design systems
- A long track record of developing and testing applications with Ember, React or other JavaScript frameworks
- A strong understanding of web performance and accessibility
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Strong mentorship skills and an ability to help grow other developers
Desirable
- Experience with Ember.js
- Experience with micro frontend architecture
- Strong knowledge of Content Delivery Networks and Fastly’s Compute platform
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will influence how we architect our React applications, while helping us maintain and migrate our existing Ember codebases
- You will contribute to our micro frontend infrastructure built on Fastly’s Compute platform and help us facilitate easy scaling of our frontend applications and development processes
- You will be a technical leader in the evolution of our core services, with attention to crafting beautiful and intuitive user interfaces
- Streamline user experiences, with an eye towards accessibility
- Consider resilience, performance, scalability, and business needs in your solutions
- Guide the approach and execution of projects you lead
- Identify and remove roadblocks to the development process
- Collaborate with other engineers, including pairing, code reviews, and technical design documents
- Mentor peers and promote inclusivity and best practices within and across teams
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 the companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users — improving the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands, and enabling clients to focus on growing their businesses.
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 it being named a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023 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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