Staff Engineer Compute Platform

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: 24 March 2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 20 April 2026

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

Staff Software Engineer Compute Platform

This team builds the platform for Fastlys Compute an advanced serverless platform built on open standards which runs on our global edge network. Its designed to address the requirements of modern application development by empowering customers to run code in a highly secure execution environment with microsecond cold start times at scale on the edge.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join this multifaceted team and help scale our hosting addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work this role will involve cross-team collaboration and designing high quality APIs for our customers to use services developed by other teams. There is also opportunity to contribute to open source projects (like Wasmtime) that are key parts of the Compute story.

What Youll Do:

• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly with the team members and across other technical and product teams
• Contribute to code reviews improving the codebase and other team processes
• Manage projects from a technical lead role driving project progress and communicating project status to stakeholders
• Write platform-level code in Rust that handles host concerns like back pressure resource limits and interactions with other services
• Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
• Be responsible for a large scale production system with extremely high performance and availability requirements

What Were Looking For:

• You have at least 7 years of software development experience with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming ideally in Rust.
• Comfortable writing asynchronous concurrent code
• A willingness to dive into and learn bleeding-edge and developing technologies

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

• Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems
• Experience with multiprocess scheduling and memory management
• Experience with systems-level optimization
• Experience with and interest in technical writing
• History of open source contribution

Work Hours

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours and requires occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support on-call coverage.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

The preferred office locations for this position are:

• London United Kingdom

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 remote candidates in the United Kingdom.

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

This position may require travel including to the United States as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary:

The estimated annual base salary for this position ranges from 124780.00 to 149736.

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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