Senior Software Engineer, Fastly

• We are looking for a Senior engineer who is interested in the space at the intersection of security & data to join the team
• Experience programming in Go and Kotlin - most Senior Engineers at Fastly have at least 5 years of relevant coding experience
• Understanding of the challenges involved in operating and evolving scalable and reliable data storage systems of multiple types
• A thoughtful and empathetic approach to design and implementation
• Experience with message queues such as Google Pub/Sub, NSQ, Kafka, Kinesis
• Experience with container technology, Kubernetes/Docker/Helm, or similar
• Experience with metric collection and monitoring tools like Prometheus or services like DataDog
• Eagerness & aptitude to learn new languages & technologies

Desirable

• The Data Services team is responsible for developing, supporting, and operating the software, systems & infrastructure that Fastly’s products are built on top of
• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading project implementations, collaborating with others, and growing/adapting systems to the needs of the business
• Develop and maintain the software and systems that ingest, manage, and process the data that powers Fastly's products
• Partner with others in both the local team and across Fastly to deliver larger, cross-team projects on time
• Scale out large data systems to meet the growing needs of Fastly and it's customers
• Use infrastructure as code and configuration management systems to run the software you develop
• Build in anticipation of the reliability, scalability, and performance needs of our systems
• Create and maintain dashboards and alerts to monitor our services
• Participate in the on-call & support rotation we share
• Help to establish the practice of using SLOs to guide decisions and priorities