Fastly

Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Data Infrastructure

Fastly

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California, Colorado, New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $195,720 - $234,864 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

DockerGoKubernetesLinuxPrometheusTerraform

About the role

  • Lead full lifecycle projects from design and development through roll out and maintenance
  • Deploy and maintain several different types of critical data storage systems on scales from gigabytes to petabytes
  • Develop statistics and dashboards to measure service-level objectives for these systems
  • Maintain and create tools for management of configuration, backup, and authenticated access to data systems using peer review, CI/CD, and both daemon- and container-based deployment
  • Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise and contribute to code reviews
  • Provide technical leadership of full lifecycle projects, driving project progress and collaborating with stakeholders
  • Coordinate and communicate with team members and cross-functional teams, fostering relationships to understand end-user needs
  • Help project, plan, and scale for growth
  • Document processes and requirements for intra- and cross-team knowledge transfer
  • Mentor and support other engineers, fostering knowledge sharing and collaboration
  • Participate in on-call rotation as needed

Requirements

  • Significant professional experience building and maintaining at least one category of backend system, including both APIs and data stores (relational-, column-, vector-, or document-oriented)
  • Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have more than 7 years of related experience
  • Experience measuring customer-focused performance using tools like Prometheus or DataDog
  • Linux system skills, including file systems, networking, I/O analysis, and general kernel tuning
  • A strong grasp of networking, routing, network protocols, and related concepts
  • Advanced Terraform skills, including working with modules and remote state
  • Experience developing automation tools in Go and other languages
  • Experience with container technology, Kubernetes/Docker/Helm, or similar
  • Collaborative mindset with experience working across cross-functional teams
  • Communicative, collaborative, empathetic with a thoughtful, customer-driven approach
  • Availability during core North American business hours and evenings and weekends as needed for on-call support (timezones span UTC-8 to UTC-3)
  • Willingness to participate in on-call rotation
Benefits
  • comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Family planning
  • Mental health support
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
  • Flexible Vacation policy
  • up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
  • 401(k) (including company match)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Equity and discretionary bonus programs
  • 11 paid local holidays (2025)
  • 11 paid company wellness days
  • Benefits start on the first day of employment

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
backend systemsAPIsdata storesLinuxnetworkingTerraformGoautomation toolsKubernetesDocker
Soft skills
technical leadershipcollaborationcommunicationmentoringcustomer-focusedempathyknowledge sharingproject planningrelationship buildingproblem-solving