Fastly

Staff Software Engineer - Observability Products

Remote Canada
Go Kubernetes MySQL MongoDB Elasticsearch Kafka API
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Description

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

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Staff Software Engineer - Observability Products

The Observability Products group is responsible for developing a new and expanding suite of observability-related products at Fastly. We’re looking for an experienced, highly collaborative software engineer to join us as we bring a best-in-class observability experience to Fastly customers. As a part of this group, you’ll work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering to design, evolve, and build the systems and APIs that leverage and derive valuable insights from the real-time and historic data available within the Fastly platform.

This role is limited to non-US only.

What You’ll Do

  • Design, develop, maintain, and test systems & tools within the Observability product-line
  • Work directly with stakeholders and the Product team to find and evaluate opportunities for new Observability products and features
  • Design systems that can evolve as we move between different phases of the product lifecycle; from experiments and proof of concepts to stable, performant, and scalable products
  • Develop design and architecture documents as a way of collaborating across groups in the design of new systems and APIs
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and customers to craft systems that deliver best-in-class observability products to Fastly customers
  • Make your support available to your team when and where they need it — a time zone compatible with the continental US, where your team will be, is a must for this role
  • Participate in an on-call rotation

What We’re Looking For 

  • Experience programming in Go or similar languages
  • Experience designing, developing, and testing REST APIs
  • Experience with projects related to observability and/or low-latency data collection and analysis
  • Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
  • Experience with event-driven systems and/or time-series data
  • Experience writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
  • Experience with complex production systems that support the needs of a rapidly growing business
  • Experience collaborating across groups and functions, including Product and design teams, to understand customer needs
  • Ability to mentor, guide, and coach team members
  • Ability to learn new skills and share what you’ve learned with the broader team

We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. It would be an added bonus if you have experience in ANY of these:

  • Go development
  • Kubernetes or similar orchestration platform
  • Relational and non-relational storage systems (e.g. MySQL, BigQuery, MongoDB, ClickHouse, ElasticSearch, Graphite)
  • Message queues (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)

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 designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit, please apply!

Fastly reserves the right to amend or modify for any reasons in accordance with applicable law.

Why Fastly?

  • We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

  • We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. 

  • We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.

  • We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 855-448-2596. 

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