Senior Software Engineer, Compute Platform (REMOTE)

Posting Open Date: 10/8/24

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 11/8/24

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Senior Software Engineer, Compute Platform 

This team builds the platform for Fastly’s Compute product – a new way to run serverless code with blazing fast startup times and strong isolation guarantees. Leveraging the WebAssembly standards and toolchains, the team develops a high-scale daemon that safely hosts customer code and connects to a large and growing variety of Fastly back-end services.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join this multifaceted team and help scale our hosting infrastructure. In addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work, this role will involve cross-team collaboration, and designing high quality APIs for our customers to use services developed by other teams. There is also ample opportunity to contribute to open source projects (like Wasmtime) that are key parts of the Compute story.

What You'll Do:

• Write platform-level code in Rust that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
• Collaborate with other teams at Fastly on interfaces to Compute services
• Design and implement both low- and high-level APIs for interacting with edge services
• Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
• Be responsible for a large scale production system with extremely high performance and availability requirements 
• Contribute to the Rust and WebAssembly open source ecosystems

What We're Looking For:

• You have at least 5 years of backend software development experience, with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust, alternately in C/C++ and some knowledge of functional programming
• You have a minimum of 2 years of experience with distributed or cloud systems
• Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these: 

• Experience with Rust or other systems languages
• Experience with API design
• Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems
• Experience with multiprocess scheduling and memory management
• Experience with systems-level optimization
• Experience with and interest in technical writing
• History of open source contribution

Work Hours: 

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours, with a strong preference for US Eastern and Central time zones. You will be required to be part of the on call rotation for the team.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: 

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.  

We are willing to consider remote candidates in North America ONLY.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $167,790 to $201,348.

Starting 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), a Flexible 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.