Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Fastly

Compute Services

$181.2-226.5k

Python
Bash
Go
Ruby
Terraform
Ansible
Puppet
Chef
Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles
Fastly

Edge cloud platform

Job no longer available

Fastly

Edge cloud platform

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityEnterpriseCyber SecurityCloud Computing

Job no longer available

$181.2-226.5k

Python
Bash
Go
Ruby
Terraform
Ansible
Puppet
Chef
Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityEnterpriseCyber SecurityCloud Computing

Company mission

To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.

Role

Who you are

  • In depth knowledge of modern Linux distributions with a focus on securing and configuring at large scale
  • Strong proficiency with development and code reviews in Ruby as well as other general purpose languages (Go, bash, Python, etc.)
  • You bring expertise with large scale development and use of infrastructure-as-code capabilities including Chef, Puppet, Terraform and other frameworks
  • Ownership (design, build, support the infrastructure) of the Base OS lifecycle, including requirements gathering, architecting and maintaining the OS configuration across our global network of 100 Points of Presence
  • Drive containerization of services on bare-metal, VM, and Cloud
  • Experience with secrets management, Hashicorp Vault and PKI systems
  • Experience with Packer VM image, programmatic PXE bare metal OS image ("golden image") and container image development
  • Work well in an environment with shared ownership of and responsibility for systems
  • Excellent technical and non-technical presentation and interpersonal skills
  • You have experience working with teams globally distributed across different geographies and timezones
  • This position will require you to be available during core business hours as well as a member of a 24x7 on call rotation

Desirable

  • Experience with implementing distributed file systems and object storage (Ceph etc.)
  • Proven ability to apply new technologies and best practices to brownfield deployments while coordinating across a diverse engineering team

What the job involves

  • We are looking for accomplished Site Reliability Engineers to join our team who will help extend our world-class infrastructure-as-code platform by developing workflow tooling and automation, provide mentoring and support for users of the platform as well as advance the speed, reliability, and security with which changes are applied to Fastly’s CDN infrastructure
  • Develop tooling and automation including development, testing and deployment for config management (Chef, Terraform, Ansible)
  • Enable robust, secure and safe self-service for configuration change releases
  • Help design and implement the next generation of our internal compute infrastructure
  • Provide tooling for security and compliance visibility and controls
  • Support and mentor development teams to enable them to own their own configurations, parameters, and application secrets
  • Lead operational troubleshooting and resolution of infrastructure configuration problems
  • Manage projects from a technical lead role driving project progress and communicating project status to stakeholders
  • Design and lead initiatives to improve the quality of currently implemented and future systems to meet stakeholder needs

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Insights

Top investors

9% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Competitive PTO Policies
  • Remote or Hybrid Work
  • Generous time off for parental leave
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Mental health resources
  • 401(k)/retirement plans
  • Employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP)
  • Reimbursements for learning and development programs

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jan 2019

$40m

SERIES F

Jul 2018

$40m

SERIES F

Total funding: $259m

Our take

Internet users around the world have come to expect personalized, real-time digital experiences, but delivering these quickly and securely, while maintaining quality, can be a difficult task for businesses.

Fastly enables the companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users — improving the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands, and enabling clients to focus on growing their businesses.

The company has helped several high-profile businesses, including Reddit, Pinterest, Stripe, Epic Games, and more. Its offering is well-regarded in the space, demonstrated by it being named a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023 report.

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