Senior Engineer - Control Systems

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s 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. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.Senior Software Engineer - Control SystemsThe Control Systems team owns services that are central to Fastly’s Control Plane, including configuration management, compilation and validation of customer configuration, and propagation of data to the edge. We are looking for a senior backend software engineer with experience and interest in making content on the web faster. This role involves working with numerous internal Fastly teams and having an impact on critical business initiatives. Our team mission is to enhance the critical systems our customers rely on to ensure a performant and delightful experience for their users and expand on what is possible.What You'll DoDesign and implement features that have a direct impact on how customers manage their configuration, and run their services on FastlyContribute, support and deploy applications written in Go and Perl to cloud environmentsCollaborate with your teammates and other engineers across the organization through code and design reviewsAnticipate, design, and build for the continued reliability and scaling needs of the Fastly Control SystemsContribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team by working with tools and frameworks like Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes and ChefParticipate in on-call rotationWhat We're Looking ForHands-on experience developing APIs in GoLang - most Senior Engineers at Fastly have at least 5 years of relevant coding experienceExperience working on, or willing to support and quickly ramp up to contribute to applications in PerlExperience scaling applications hosted in a cloud environment that rely on relational databasesUnderstanding of best principles for system designAble to implement reasonably well defined projects with minimal guidanceYou are eager to learn new domains, grow your skills, and move up the stackStrong written and verbal communication skillsA great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empatheticYou have experience working with teams distributed across different time zonesWe’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:Building, analyzing, profiling, or debugging large-scale distributed systemsCachingVarnishCompilersWork Hours:This position will require you to be available during core North American business hours and occasional nights and weekends for on call rotation.Work Locations & Travel Requirements:This position is open to candidates in any US Fastly Office with a preference on the following office locations:New York, NYSan Francisco, CAFastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. Relocation is not supported for this position.This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.Salary:The estimated base salary range for this position is $167,790 to $209,740Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s 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), an open 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 2024, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.

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