Senior UI Engineer, Fastly
Observability Products
$155.4-194.2k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
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Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$155.4-194.2k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years developing and maintaining robust user experiences using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
- Experience building & testing production applications with React or other JavaScript frameworks
- Experience surfacing and advocating for customer needs
- Solid understanding of the HTTP request/response cycle, UI development and web performance
- Experience collaborating across groups and functions, including Product and design teams
- This position will require you to be available during core business hours and evenings and weekends as needed for on-call support
- Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home
Desirable
- Experience building products related to observability and/or low-latency data collection and analysis
- Data visualization experience in D3 or other open-source tools
- Experience working with React component libraries and design systems
What the job involves
- The Observability Products group is responsible for developing a new and expanding suite of observability-related products at Fastly
- We’re looking for an experienced, highly collaborative software engineer to join us as we bring a best-in-class observability experience to Fastly customers
- As a part of this group, you’ll work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering to design, evolve, and build the applications that leverage and derive valuable insights from the data available within the Fastly platform
- Design, develop, maintain, and test web applications within the Observability product-line
- Work directly with stakeholders and our Product team to find and evaluate opportunities for new Observability products and features
- Design applications that can evolve as we move between different phases of the product lifecycle; from experiments and proof of concepts to stable, performant, and scalable products
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to craft systems that deliver best-in-class observability products to Fastly customers
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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