Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Network Telemetry and Optimization

You must currently reside in a commutable distance from San Francisco, NYC, Los Angeles, or Denver to be considered for this opportunity

The Network Telemetry and Optimization Team is building a modern autonomous control system that monitors Fastly’s edge platform and makes real-time data-driven decisions to ensure high levels of availability and performance across our network. We are looking for talented Site Reliability and/or System Development Engineers with experience in designing, building and operating distributed systems that are scalable, fault tolerant and easy to manage. You'll be joining a dynamic and highly collaborative team of experienced engineers, responsible for some of Fastly’s most critical network services. Many of our largest customers rely on our work to ensure a performant and delightful experience for their users. You will play a critical role in ensuring the success of this team to continue and set higher operational standards.

What You'll Do

• Architect, build, deploy and maintain robust infrastructure using public cloud providers to run diverse types of workloads
• Maintain and improve configuration management processes, CI/CD pipelines, utilities, and tooling
• Consider scalability, security, performance, reliability and ease-of-use in the design of the services you develop and support
• Build automation that reduces manual interaction and promotes continuous improvement
• Foster relationships with other teams to understand and provide end-user needs

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours

What We're Looking For

Basic Qualifications:

• In order to be successful in this role, you must have 5 years of experience operating highly available distributed systems and supporting mission critical infrastructure
• You have a minimum of 3 years of experience with build and packaging tools, CI systems, release engineering practices and CD platforms
• You have at least 3 years of experience with automating public cloud workloads (GCP, AWS), and using IaC solutions such as Terraform
• You have 3 years of experience in building and managing containerized applications and container orchestration platforms like Docker and Kubernetes
• You have a track record of  instrumenting applications and integrating them with different observability solutions
• Experience and solid foundations in software development, design patterns and DevOps best practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• You have experience with configuration management software such as ansible and chef
• You are familiar with monitoring solutions like Prometheus and Grafana
• You have experience with compiled languages, preferably Go or Rust
• Your experience is rooted in Linux networking concepts such as DNS, routing, iptables, fwmarks etc.
• You have experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements

This position is a remote role and open to candidates residing in the following locations: San Francisco, CA or New York City, New York.

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

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720 to $244,640.

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), company paid holidays, paid time off and paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.