Site Reliability Engineer - API Services

Posting Open Date: 12/16/2024

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 12/30/2024

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

Site Reliability Engineer - API Services

The API Services team owns critical services to ensure the performance and reliability of Fastly’s Control Plane. We are looking for a Site Reliability or Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our team. This role involves working with numerous internal Fastly teams and supporting critical components of our infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Operating, deploying and maintaining a high throughput services that have a direct impact on how customers run their services on Fastly
• Contribute, support and deploy applications and scripts written in Go to cloud environments
• Evolve manual tasks into reliable, automatic systems 
• Collaborate with your teammates and other engineers across the organization through code and design reviews
• Anticipate, design, and build for the continued reliability and scaling needs of the Fastly Control Systems
• 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 on-call rotation

What We're Looking For

• You have at least 2 years of related development experience, preferably building 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)
• Track record of processes improvements through automation
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, etc)
• Understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Able to implement reasonably well defined projects with minimal guidance 
• You are eager to learn new domains, grow your skills, and move up the stack
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic
• You have experience working with teams distributed across different time zones

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

• Envoy 
• API Gateway
• Varnish

Work Hours:

This position will require you to be available during core North American business hours and occasional nights and weekends for on call rotation.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to both hybrid and remote work locations in the US.

The preferred hybrid locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York, NY

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 the United States only.

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary: 

The estimated base salary range for this position is $143,860 to $173,632.

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 non-accrual 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 2025, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.