Staff Engineer API Services

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 211370 - 253644

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 GitHub Yelp Paramount and JetBlue.

Were building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Posting Open Date: Feb. 11 2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: March 11 2026

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Staff Software Engineer - API Services

The API Services team owns critical services to ensure the performance and reliability of Fastlys Control Plane. As a Staff Software Engineer you will drive the technical vision and architectural evolution of these high-throughput globally distributed systems. This role involves leading cross-functional initiatives with numerous internal Fastly teams to support and scale critical components of our infrastructure.

What Youll Do

Lead the design and development for highly-available scalable and distributed systems to enable Fastly to meet the challenges of sustained growth and scale.
Mentor engineers across the team in developing applications in Go and advocate for software development best practices and high-quality code standards.
Drive significant process and architecture improvements by evolving manual tasks and complex legacy components into reliable automatic and highly efficient systems.
Define and communicate the long-term technical roadmap for API Services and collaborate with engineering leaders and principal engineers to align cross-team dependencies and strategies.
Anticipate design and implement major architectural changes to ensure the continued reliability and scaling needs of the Fastly Control Systems for years to come.
Define and champion Platform Engineering best practices for the API Services team improving the foundational infrastructure used by internal developers.
Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team by working with tools and frameworks like Terraform Jenkins Kubernetes and Chef
Participate in an on-call rotation

What Were Looking For

You have at least 7 years of related development experience including a significant track record of building and scaling global-scale distributed systems.
Hands-on experience developing applications in GoLang
Solid experience with cloud providers (AWS GCP) containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
Experience with declarative configuration languages such as CUE or other tools for managing configuration compilation and coordination.
Track record of processes improvements through automation
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Splunk New Relic etc)
Deep expertise and mastery of distributed systems and microservices architecture including hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale production services.
Proven ability to independently drive and deliver large complex and ambiguous projects that span multiple teams and require significant cross-organizational influence.
Strong written and verbal communication skills
A great teammate: communicative collaborative empathetic
You have experience working with teams distributed across different time zones

Well be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

Envoy
API Gateways
Varnish VCL
Service Mesh implementation/configuration

Work Hours:

This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as required for on call support

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to Hybrid And Remote Work Locations.

The preferred locations for this position are:

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.

There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US.

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 in the US is $211370 to $253644.

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 2026 we offer 11 paid local holidays 12 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 of open 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.

All job applications must be submitted through our official careers site at We will never request sensitive information such as your Social Security number bank account or credit card information during the application process. All official communication will come from an @ or @ email address.

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.

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Required Experience:

Staff IC