Senior Engineer Monetization

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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Senior Engineer - Monetization

Posting Open Date: 06/02/26

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 08/03/26

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

The Fastly Growth Engineering team is looking for an experienced highly collaborative full-stack software engineer to evolve design build and own systems & APIs that drive customer growth across Fastlys product portfolio. Our team owns systems that help Fastly customers discover and adopt the right products for their use cases.. You will design and build new services from the ground up collaborate closely with product and platform teams and take projects from ambiguous problem statements through to production.

What Youll Do:

• Design build and own new backend services and APIs end-to-end from technical proposal through implementation testing and production rollout.

• Contribute to frontend experiences that surface the teams services to customers

• Take ambiguous or broadly-scoped problems and turn them into well-defined technical plans that the team can execute on.

• Author design and architectural documents and use them to drive alignment across engineering and product teams

• Collaborate with internal platform teams product managers and stakeholders across the organization the understand needs and deliver impactful solutions

• Consider stability performance and scalability in your designs and in the guidance you provide to the team

• Mentor and grow other engineers on the team through code review pairing and technical leadership

• Participate in an on-call rotation

What Were Looking For:

• Hands-on experience designing and building reliable large-scale backend systems - most Senior Engineers at Fastly have at least 5 years of relevant experience

• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language with the ability to pick up new languages and frameworks quickly

• Experience designing and implementing new services or systems from scratch (greenfield development)

• Experience with a relational database is required and nosql database is a big plus

• Experience writing code that is performant maintainable clear and concise

• A track record of taking ownership of projects (not just individual tasks) and driving them to successful outcomes

• Experience authoring technical proposals and design documents to align stakeholders and guide implementation

• Experience working across teams and functions to understand business needs and deliver software that meets them

• Experience mentoring guiding and growing other engineers

• Comfort operating in ambiguity. You can assess feasibility identify constraints and formulate a realistic plan even when the problem isnt fully defined.

• Ability to learn new skills and share what youve learned with the broader team

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

• Experience with Go and/or React

• Experience with AI/LLM technologies recommendation systems data science or data modeling

• Experience with or interest in Rust

• Experience with event-driven architectures (ex: Kafka message buses) and distributed systems at scale
  

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours.
  

Work Location & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following office location:

• San Francisco CA

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. We do not support relocation.

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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 $181220 to $217464.

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 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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