Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development.

Fastly’s customers use our edge cloud platform to ensure concertgoers can buy tickets to the live events they love, travelers can book flights seamlessly and embark on their next great adventure, and sports fans can stream events in real time, across devices. They include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Spotify, Alaska Airlines, Hulu, The New York Times, and Ticketmaster.

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Senior Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

As a member of the Developer Productivity team, you’ll be working to improve the overall experience of engineers at Fastly through clear development processes and intuitive tools. Simply put, we aim to minimize friction in the development process, and make it easy for engineers to do the right thing. You’ll be working closely with co-workers from diverse backgrounds, using a wide array of technologies. We value candidates who have a strong customer-focus, and are passionate about helping to make the lives of their fellow engineers better.

What You'll Do

• Enhance and evolve the tools that Fastly engineers use to build our edge cloud platform
• Collaborate with other engineers to improve our continuous delivery pipelines
• Implement extension points and frameworks in the pipelines to support automated acceptance, integration, performance and security testing
• Work closely with leadership across engineering to reduce toil through automation

What We're Looking For

• A collaborative approach to problem solving
• A strong grasp of computer science fundamentals
• An understanding of how to be productive in a highly distributed organization
• Hands-on experience developing software in a modern language (compiled or scripted)
• Comfort learning new languages and technologies as needed
• Bias towards action: you know that there’s a time for analysis, and a time to build
• A keen eye for finding impactful work and proposing innovative, timely solutions
• An understanding of the challenges associated with building modern software systems, and an informed perspective on how to improve the state of the practice
• Experience working with continuous integration, testing and deployment tools
• Familiarity with modern version control systems
• Familiarity with development in a modern cloud computing environment

Bonus Points

• Experience with Docker and container orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Experience with Go, Ruby, C/C++, Java, or Perl
• Hands-on experience with one or more modern CI servers
• You’ve read The Pragmatic Programmer, Continuous Delivery, xUnit Test Patterns, The C Programming Language, or Modern C++ Design

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We’re a Global Company. Fastly’s home base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of our SF headquarters! An international culture is part of our DNA.
• We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply!

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

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