Principal Engineer Release Engineering

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.

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Posting Open Date:Updated March 31 2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: April 15 2026
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Principal Release Engineer

We are looking for a Principal Release Engineer to join Fastlys Release Engineering team. The Release Engineer is responsible for the set-up maintenance and ongoing development of continuous build / integration and deployment this role you will create and maintain fully automated CI build processes for multiple environments including our global edge cache fleet internal applications and applications hosted in AWS and GCP. The ideal candidate will care deeply about providing other engineers with a seamless release experience and have a deep understanding of what engineers care about how they ship code and what world-class delivery infrastructure looks like.

Responsibilities

• Design build and operate release tooling across building packaging signing artifact management and deploying software.
• Drive initiatives that make our engineers happier and more productive by reducing lead time for changes.
• Collaborate with development and SRE teams to develop policies standards guidelines governance and related guidance for CI/D operations.
• Support developers from with build automation merge resolution CI test automation deployment based on tools usage and policies standards.
• Troubleshoot issues along the CI/D pipeline.
• Participate in on-call support rotation

What were looking for

• 10 years of related professional platform engineering experience including designing and operating distributed systems in production
• Experience building internal developer platforms or paved roads at scale (e.g. service catalogs selfservice infrastructure standardized delivery pipelines)
• Demonstrated success leading complex crossfunctional technical initiatives with broad organizational impact
• Strong systems design and architecture skills with a pragmatic approach to tradeoffs risk management and incremental delivery
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following languages: Ruby Python Go.
• Experience with Linux and containerization particularly with Docker & orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Expertise with automation tools such as Jenkins GitHub Actions or Dagger.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks such as Chef Terraform Ansible etc
• Knowledge of source code control management systems and configuration management (i.e. Git GitHub etc) and code branching/merging strategies
• Experience with a Cloud-based environment particularly AWS and/or GCP. Both would be ideal!
• Good understanding of quality control and test automation in agile-based continuous integration environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders

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

• Varnish Nginx or other cache and proxy servers
• Experience with Omnibus and/or Debian packaging
• Experience with artifact repositories such as Artifactory or Sonatype Nexus
• Some experience with SQL and relational databases administration (i.e. Oracle MySQL)
• Open source license tracking auditing and reporting

Work Hours:

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

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

The preferred hybrid locations for this position are:

• San Francisco CA
• Denver CO
• New York NY

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 also willing to consider highly qualified remote candidates in the United States.

This position will require travel as required by your manager.

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 246550 to 295860.

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 designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.

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 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.

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