• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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