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Staff Software Engineer, Network Functions and Architecture
Fastly
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California, Colorado, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $195,720 - $234,864 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsDNSGoRust
About the role
- Lead full lifecycle projects from design and development through roll out and maintenance to build systems that make automated network configuration decisions for load balancing, traffic engineering and failover purposes
- Design and build systems to collect, normalize, enrich, transport, and process data from heterogeneous sources across a rapidly scaling network
- Study and apply concepts from control theory, optimization and statistics to tackle traffic engineering problems
- Design and build pipelines for generating, testing and deploying changes to distributed systems that control Fastly's edge network
- Design and build software systems to run on network equipment for controlling their dataplane configuration
- Provide technical leadership of full lifecycle projects and coordinate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Write performant, maintainable, clear, and concise code and contribute to code reviews
- Mentor and support other engineers, fostering knowledge sharing and collaboration
- Participate in on-call rotation and be available during core business hours, occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support on-call
Requirements
- Significant professional experience building high-reliability distributed systems (Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have more than 7 years of related experience)
- Solid understanding of the Go programming language
- Consistent track record of designing and implementing large-scale and mission-critical distributed software systems
- Understanding of the challenges involved in building, operating, and maintaining scalable and reliable data processing systems
- Experience mentoring, guiding, and coaching team members
- Ability to learn new skills and share what you’ve learned with the broader team
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotation as needed
- (Preferred) Real-world experience in IP, BGP, Anycast, and DNS
- (Preferred) Understanding of control theory, optimization, probability or statistics
- (Preferred) Experience working with geographically dispersed teams; previous remote work preferred
- (Preferred) Experience in network telemetry including instrumenting infrastructure and collecting, processing, storing and analyzing data
- (Preferred) Experience writing production-level code using the Rust programming language
Benefits
- 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
- Eligibility for equity and discretionary bonus programs
- 11 paid local holidays (2025)
- 11 paid company wellness days (2025)
- Largely hybrid work model with flexibility to split time between office and home
- In-person new hire orientation in San Francisco
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Go programming languageRust programming languagedistributed systemsdata processing systemsnetwork configurationtraffic engineeringcontrol theoryoptimizationstatisticscode reviews
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationknowledge sharingguiding team memberscoachingproblem-solvingadaptabilitycommunicationavailability for on-call
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