Staff Engineer - Edge Protocols

Fastly is a company that helps people stay better connected with the things they love through their edge cloud platform. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop software that interacts with both sides of Fastly, focusing on enhancing network protocols and optimizing performance.

Responsibilities:

• Write, test, and deploy both C and Rust code
• Enhance, maintain and optimize network software that implements protocols including TLS, HTTP, QUIC, etc
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to shape a clear technical roadmap - prioritizing key initiatives and proactively identifying and mitigating risks - to deploy, support, troubleshoot, and deliver features to customers
• Contribute to open source projects such as h2o and picotls
• Mentor and support the professional growth of engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, innovation, and collaboration within the team

Requirements:

• Proven ability to design & implement reliable, scalable, low latency systems. Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have at least 7 years of domain relevant engineering experience
• A collaborative mindset with experience working across cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and innovation
• Significant production experience with coding in C, C++, and/or Rust
• Proven ability to mentor and support the growth of engineers, both within a specific area of expertise and more broadly
• Experience with Linux systems and network programming
• Hands-on experience in building distributed infrastructure and maintaining it over time
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear and comprehensive documentation
• Web/Internet protocols such as HTTP, TLS, DNS, TCP/IP, UDP, QUIC
• Understanding of how customers will interact with features you develop
• Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team and highly available environments
• Proficient in Perl, Go, or similar high level languages