Lead the design and development for highly-available, scalable, and distributed systems to enable Fastly to meet the challenges of sustained growth and scale.
Mentor engineers across the team in developing applications in Go and advocate for software development best practices and high-quality code standards.
Drive significant process and architecture improvements by evolving manual tasks and complex legacy components into reliable, automatic, and highly efficient systems.
Define and communicate the long-term technical roadmap for API Services and collaborate with engineering leaders and principal engineers to align cross-team dependencies and strategies.
Anticipate, design, and implement major architectural changes to ensure the continued reliability and scaling needs of the Fastly Control Systems for years to come.
Define and champion Platform Engineering best practices for the API Services team, improving the foundational infrastructure used by internal developers.
Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team by working with tools and frameworks like Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Chef.
Participate in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

You have at least 7 years of related development experience, including a significant track record of building and scaling global-scale distributed systems.
Hands-on experience developing applications in GoLang.
Solid experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
Experience with declarative configuration languages such as CUE or other tools for managing configuration compilation and coordination.
Track record of processes improvements through automation.
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, etc).
Deep expertise and mastery of distributed systems and microservices architecture, including hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale production services.
Proven ability to independently drive and deliver large, complex, and ambiguous projects that span multiple teams and require significant cross-organizational influence.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic.
You have experience working with teams distributed across different time zones.

Benefits

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.
Up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave.
401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
11 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

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Soft Skills

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