• Hands-on experience developing reliable, large scale backend systems - most Senior Engineers at Fastly have at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience with Go (golang) or Java, preferably both
• Experience with a relational database is required and nosql database is a big plus
• Experience writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
• Experience with complex, global-scale production systems that support the needs of a rapidly growing business
• Experience in projects related to low-latency data collection and analysis
• Experience collaborating across groups and functions, including Product teams, to understand business needs
• Experience delivering business-impacting software that meets the needs of these disparate groups
• An understanding of the tradeoffs and challenges involved in building, operating and maintaining scalable and reliable data pipelines
• Experience mentoring, guiding, and coaching team members
• Ability to learn new skills and share what you’ve learned with the broader team

Desirable

• The Fastly Monetization Engineering team is looking for an experienced, highly collaborative backend software engineer to evolve, design, and build systems & APIs that are part of Fastly’s Billing Platform
• You’ll work across functions to design and create tools and systems that improve visibility and access to handle Fastly’s rapidly-growing family of products
• You will also help expand our ability to gain value from the data pipelines powering our real-time logging, stats, and control plane applications
• Design, develop, maintain, and test broad systems & tools as part of the Billing Platform
• Work directly with stakeholders and the Product team to find and evaluate opportunities to remove barriers for groups at Fastly to create and sell new product lines
• Design systems that allow internal teams from across the organization to get the data they need to operate with a focus on stability, performance & scalability
• Develop design and architecture documents as a way of collaborating across groups in the design of new systems and APIs
• Lead and participate in the building, deployment, and maintenance of the software systems that collect, transport, and make data available to the Fastly organization
• Make your support available to your team when and where they need it — a time zone compatible with the continental US, where your team will be, is a must for this role
• Participate in an on-call rotation

• Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Sept. 30, 2024