Fastly
Posting Open Date:
Sept. 8, 2025
Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Oct. 6, 2025
Overview 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. We’re building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
The Role Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Data Infrastructure. The Data Reliability team is looking for a talented Staff Site Reliability Engineer to help build and support the next generation of data stores for Fastly. The ideal candidate will have experience working with backend and data services in both cloud and physical systems; be skilled with configuration management tools such as Terraform; and be able to develop internal administration tools in Go and similar. Our team is responsible for supporting the infrastructure, orchestration, and reliability needs of some of Fastly’s most data-intensive applications, using technologies like Terraform, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Prometheus, MySQL, and Redis in both cloud- and hardware-based environments. Our systems directly contribute to our customers\' success by providing our product teams with a platform for effective and reliable delivery of high-quality, high-throughput, globally distributed data systems and products. You will be integral to this mission. We are a distributed team, and employ a variety of styles to get our work done—though we put a high value on working collaboratively, we also rely on asynchronous communication.
What You'll Do
Lead full lifecycle projects from design and development through roll out and maintenance
Deploy and maintain several different types of critical data storage systems on scales from gigabytes to petabytes
Develop statistics and dashboards to measure service-level objectives for these systems
Maintain and create tools for management of configuration, backup, and authenticated access to data systems using peer review, CI/CD, and both daemon- and container-based deployment
Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise and contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
Technical leadership of full lifecycle projects, driving project progress and collaborating with project stakeholders - Coordinate and communicate with team members and across other technical and cross functional teams. Foster relationships with other teams to understand and provide for end-user needs.
Help project, plan, and scale for growth
Document processes and requirements for both intra- and cross-team knowledge transfer
Mentor and support other engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, innovation, and collaboration within the team
Participate in on-call rotation as needed
What We're Looking For
Significant professional experience building and maintaining at least one category of backend system, including both APIs and data stores (relational-, column-, vector-, or document-oriented). Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have more than 7 years of related experience.
Experience measuring customer-focused performance using tools like Prometheus or DataDog
Linux system skills, including file systems, networking, I/O analysis, and general kernel tuning
A strong grasp of networking, routing, network protocols, and related concepts
Advanced Terraform skills, including working with modules and remote state
Experience developing automation tools in Go and other languages, with an aptitude for learning new languages and technologies
Experience with container technology, Kubernetes/Docker/Helm, or similar
A collaborative mindset with experience working across cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of respect, collaboration, and knowledge sharing
A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic with a thoughtful, customer-driven approach
Preferred Experience
Performance measurement using eBPF, flame graphs, etc.
Creation of Kubernetes operators
Leveraging a service mesh like Istio or Linkerd for service discovery and ACLs
Knowledge of one or more host management tools (Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
More data storage familiarity, especially Elasticsearch
Work Hours
This position will require you to be available during core North American business hours and evenings and weekends as needed for on-call support. Our team\'s timezones span from UTC-8 (Pacific) to UTC-3.
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements This position is open to the following office locations:
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. This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
Compensation and Benefits Salary
The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720 to $234,864. 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 offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Life, Disability, and Accident insurance, Flexible Vacation, up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave, 401(k) with company match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2025, we offer 11 paid local holidays and 11 paid wellness days.
EEO and Privacy We are committed to equal employment opportunity and a safe, welcoming work environment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. Fastly provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If accommodations are needed to participate in the application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, or to receive other benefits, please contact the Recruiter or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901. We also notify applicants about our data privacy practices in our Privacy Policy.
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Sept. 8, 2025
Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Oct. 6, 2025
Overview 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. We’re building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
The Role Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Data Infrastructure. The Data Reliability team is looking for a talented Staff Site Reliability Engineer to help build and support the next generation of data stores for Fastly. The ideal candidate will have experience working with backend and data services in both cloud and physical systems; be skilled with configuration management tools such as Terraform; and be able to develop internal administration tools in Go and similar. Our team is responsible for supporting the infrastructure, orchestration, and reliability needs of some of Fastly’s most data-intensive applications, using technologies like Terraform, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Prometheus, MySQL, and Redis in both cloud- and hardware-based environments. Our systems directly contribute to our customers\' success by providing our product teams with a platform for effective and reliable delivery of high-quality, high-throughput, globally distributed data systems and products. You will be integral to this mission. We are a distributed team, and employ a variety of styles to get our work done—though we put a high value on working collaboratively, we also rely on asynchronous communication.
What You'll Do
Lead full lifecycle projects from design and development through roll out and maintenance
Deploy and maintain several different types of critical data storage systems on scales from gigabytes to petabytes
Develop statistics and dashboards to measure service-level objectives for these systems
Maintain and create tools for management of configuration, backup, and authenticated access to data systems using peer review, CI/CD, and both daemon- and container-based deployment
Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise and contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
Technical leadership of full lifecycle projects, driving project progress and collaborating with project stakeholders - Coordinate and communicate with team members and across other technical and cross functional teams. Foster relationships with other teams to understand and provide for end-user needs.
Help project, plan, and scale for growth
Document processes and requirements for both intra- and cross-team knowledge transfer
Mentor and support other engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, innovation, and collaboration within the team
Participate in on-call rotation as needed
What We're Looking For
Significant professional experience building and maintaining at least one category of backend system, including both APIs and data stores (relational-, column-, vector-, or document-oriented). Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have more than 7 years of related experience.
Experience measuring customer-focused performance using tools like Prometheus or DataDog
Linux system skills, including file systems, networking, I/O analysis, and general kernel tuning
A strong grasp of networking, routing, network protocols, and related concepts
Advanced Terraform skills, including working with modules and remote state
Experience developing automation tools in Go and other languages, with an aptitude for learning new languages and technologies
Experience with container technology, Kubernetes/Docker/Helm, or similar
A collaborative mindset with experience working across cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of respect, collaboration, and knowledge sharing
A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic with a thoughtful, customer-driven approach
Preferred Experience
Performance measurement using eBPF, flame graphs, etc.
Creation of Kubernetes operators
Leveraging a service mesh like Istio or Linkerd for service discovery and ACLs
Knowledge of one or more host management tools (Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
More data storage familiarity, especially Elasticsearch
Work Hours
This position will require you to be available during core North American business hours and evenings and weekends as needed for on-call support. Our team\'s timezones span from UTC-8 (Pacific) to UTC-3.
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements This position is open to the following office locations:
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. This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
Compensation and Benefits Salary
The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720 to $234,864. 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 offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Life, Disability, and Accident insurance, Flexible Vacation, up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave, 401(k) with company match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2025, we offer 11 paid local holidays and 11 paid wellness days.
EEO and Privacy We are committed to equal employment opportunity and a safe, welcoming work environment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. Fastly provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If accommodations are needed to participate in the application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, or to receive other benefits, please contact the Recruiter or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901. We also notify applicants about our data privacy practices in our Privacy Policy.
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