Staff Software Engineer, Edge Delivery Fastly - Los Angeles, United States - Hollywood IT Society

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.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Please note:
You MUST CURRENTLY reside within a commutable distance to Los Angeles to be considered for this position. NO EXCEPTIONS

The Edge Delivery team maintains Varnish, Fastly's core caching platform.

Leveraging C and Rust standards and toolchains, the team develops a high-scale daemon and supporting services that execute customer configurations and connects to a large and growing variety of Fastly back-end services.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join this crucial team and help scale our hosting infrastructure.

In addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work, this role will involve extensive cross-team collaboration as well as the design of high quality APIs to enable our customers to utilize services developed by other teams at Fastly.

What You'll Do:
Lead and facilitate collaboration with other teams at Fastly on interfaces to Varnish and related technologies like VCL

Design and implement both low- and high-level APIs for interacting with edge services

Write C and Rust code that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services

Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements

Design, review, and author software relevant to your team's function

Provide context to technical conversations that drives clear goals and prioritization

Utilize your expertise in software engineering to ensure high quality software is delivered incrementally

Advise other software developers by mentoring them from your own experience, and helping guide their direction based on company needs

Clearly communicate upward and outward to set and adjust expectations with your partners


What We're Looking For:
You have at least 7 years of production experience as a software engineer with at least 2 of those working on networking/distributed/cloud systems

You have at least 3 years of experience with either C or Rust

You have been a principal contributor or a tech lead with the ability to influence the direction of a customer facing product

Ability to participate in and help coordinate incident response and mitigation

Formal CS education is not required; demonstrable experience is sufficient

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

Experience with C, Rust or other systems languages

Experience with API design in functional languages

Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems

Experience with and interest in technical writing

Interest in open source contribution

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