Software Development Engineer

Fastly is a company that provides an edge cloud platform for processing, serving, and securing applications close to end users. The Software Development Engineer will implement features and improvements for high-throughput, globally distributed API services supporting Fastly's Control Plane, collaborate across teams, improve automation and infrastructure, and participate in on-call support.

Responsibilities:

• Implement projects and features that require interaction with neighboring systems, working across groups to solve issues and implement changes
• Contribute to and facilitate team discussions, respecting and incorporating differing opinions
• Provide useful design and code review feedback to your teammates
• Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team by working with tools and frameworks like Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Chef
• Help evolve manual tasks into more reliable, automated systems
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teammates
• Help onboard and support new team members
• Take the lead in solving problems of diverse scope, with guidance from senior teammates as needed
• Participate in an on-call rotation

Requirements:

• You have 1-3 years of related development experience
• Working knowledge of GoLang, with a desire to build deeper hands-on expertise
• Exposure to cloud providers (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Good understanding of core engineering concepts within your functional area
• Able to execute on features that require interaction with neighboring applications or services
• Growing understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Comfortable taking on well-scoped projects with support from senior teammates
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic
• Eager to learn new domains, grow your skills, and take on more scope over time
• Open to working with teams distributed across different time zones
• This position will require you to be available during core business hours (Mountain/Pacific Time) and occasional nights and weekends as required for on-call support
• This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager
• Envoy
• API Gateways
• Varnish, VCL
• The preferred locations for this position are:
• • San Francisco, CA
• • Denver, CO
• There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US