Staff Software Engineer, Fastly
Customer Usage Data Platform
$195.7-244.6k
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Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$195.7-244.6k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Experience building and scaling real time and near real time APIs in Go
- Experience building backend features utilizing Clickhouse, Open Telemetry and Prometheus
- Experience building and scaling relational databases
- Experience implementing stream processing pipelines
- Experience building analytical tools & machine learning platforms
What the job involves
- 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
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date: Sept. 30, 2024
- Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants
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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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2019
$40m
SERIES F
Jul 2018
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $259m
Company benefits
- Competitive PTO Policies
- Remote or Hybrid Work
- Generous time off for parental leave
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Mental health resources
- 401(k)/retirement plans
- Employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP)
- Reimbursements for learning and development programs
Company values
- We have a curious spirit
- We focus on our customer
- We are trustworthy
- We act with passion
- We operate with integrity
- We are competitive
- We embrace transparency
- We are good people
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Artur Bergman
(Chief Architect and Executive Chairperson)Served as the company's CEO until changing roles in 2020. Previously served as CTO at Wikia, and was a Board Member at OpenID Foundation
People progressing
Joined as Sales Engineer (Media and Entertainment). Was promoted to Senior Sales Engineer (EMEA) after 2 years, then promoted again to Senior Principal Sales Engineer.
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