Senior Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering
Senior Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering
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$ 167790 - 201348
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Job Description
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastlys edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly securely and reliably by processing serving and securing our customers applications as close to their end-users as possible at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet to be programmable and to support agile software development. Fastlys customers include many of the worlds most prominent companies including Vimeo Pinterest The New York Times and GitHub.
Were building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
Posting Open Date: June 9 2025
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Aug 4 2025
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Senior Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering
Do you thrive on designing deployment pipelines and tooling that keep a global edge platform running seamlessly across diverse environments Fastlys Infrastructure Engineering organization builds and operates the systems that power our worldwide presence. As a Senior Engineer you will extend our deployment models to support new ISP partnerships and evolving technologies ensuring our edge software remains reliable observable and easy to operate -- whether on bare metal under orchestration or traditional cloud.
What Youll Do:
- Ship production-ready code supporting Fastly workloads consistently across partner ISPs public clouds and on-prem POPs
- Combine Linux internals virtualization container orchestration and cloud APIs to create repeatable deployment patterns and low-touch day-2 operations
- Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements to keep the edge healthy
- Collaborate with development teams operations and stakeholders to transform new customer or platform requirements into dependable features; and own them in production
What Were Looking For:
- At least 5 years building high-reliability distributed systems
- Senior level proficiency in Go Rust or another systems language
- Hands on experience in production with Kubernetes or comparable orchestration tooling
- Experience with debugging Linux internals either in a cloud environment or on bare metal systems
- An understanding of safe coding practices release practices and data analysis techniques
- Pragmatic approach with a willingness to refactor legacy code one day and write green-field services the next
- Strong passion for producing clear accurate and timely documentation
Well be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:
- Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems
- Experience with linux based virtualization
- Experience either developing or supporting Linux Kernel
- Knowledge of network protocols: BGP TCP routing transport
- Passion for modernizing software while ensuring continued functionality
Work Hours:
This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support the on-call rotation.
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:
This position is open to the following office locations:
- San Francisco CA
- New York NY
- Denver CO
Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. We are not considering remote applicants at this time.
This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary:
The estimated salary range for this position is $167790 to $201348.
Starting salary may vary based on permissible non-discriminatory factors such as experience skills qualifications and location.
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastlys equity and discretionary bonus programs.
Benefits:
We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings
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 2025 we offer 11 paid local holidays 11 paid company wellness days.
Why Fastly
We have a huge impact.Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only doour customershave a tremendous user base but we also support a growing number ofopen source projects and of code employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
We love distributed teams. Fastlys home-base is in San Francisco but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly participate in hands-on learning opportunities and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.
We value diversity.Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
We are passionate.Fastly is chock full of passionate people and were not one size fits all. Fastly employs authors pilots skiers parents (of humans and animals) makeup geeks coffee connoisseurs and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.
Were always looking for humble sharp and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.
Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin family or parental status physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances.
Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact your Recruiter or the Fastly Employee Relations team at or .
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
