Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Edge Application Engineering team, focusing on the Image Optimizer product to enhance image and video performance across the web.
Responsibilities
- Lead full lifecycle projects from design and development through roll out and maintenance to build new features for products written in Go and Rust ensuring compatibility with the latest Fastly products and features
- Design and implement new Fastly features and enhancements for these products, based on customer feedback and modern best practices, writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
- Identify, diagnose, and resolve issues within the products, with a focus on performance and reliability at scale
- Ensure timely and effective solutions to maintain high-quality customer experiences
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, including cloud engineers, product managers, and customer support teams to understand user requirements and address issues related to the products
Skills
- Significant professional experience building high-reliability distributed systems. Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have more than 7 years of related experience
- At least 5 years of experience with the Go or Rust programming languages
- At least 3 years of experience working with cloud and container technologies such as Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform
- Experience at creating clear, concise, and comprehensive technical documentation
- Experience working with customer support teams, and directly with customers, to diagnose and troubleshoot problems
- Experience mentoring, guiding, and coaching team members
- Ability to learn new skills and share what you've learned with the broader team
- Experience with Varnish Configuration Language (VCL)
- Image/video containers and formats
- Additional cloud/serverless platforms
- A passion for learning new technologies, tools, and languages
- Terraform
Benefits
- We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees.
- We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- For 2026, we offer 12 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.
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