Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Data Infrastructure

Fastly

full-time

Posted on: 9/28/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

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

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💰 $195,720 - $234,864 per year

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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

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

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

backend systemsAPIsdata storesLinuxnetworkingTerraformGoautomation toolsKubernetesDocker

technical leadershipcollaborationcommunicationmentoringcustomer-focusedempathyknowledge sharingproject planningrelationship buildingproblem-solving