[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fastly is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help scale the hosting infrastructure for its Compute serverless platform on a global edge network. The role focuses on platform-level systems work, performance and stability, customer-facing APIs, and technical leadership across teams.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity program.
• This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s discretionary bonus program.
• This position is open to Hybrid and Remote Work Locations.
• Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

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