Senior Software Engineer - Core Compute

Senior Software Engineer - Core Compute 

The Core Compute team builds the Compute@Edge platform, Fastly’s new way to run serverless code with fast startup times and strong isolation guarantees. Leveraging the WebAssembly standards and toolchains, the team develops a high-scale daemon that safely hosts customers’ code and connects to a large and growing variety of Fastly back-end services.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join this multifaceted team and help scale our hosting infrastructure. In addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work, this role will involve cross-team collaboration, and designing high quality APIs for our customers to use services developed by other teams. There is also ample opportunity to contribute to open source projects (like Wasmtime) that are key parts of the Compute@Edge story.

What You'll Do

• Write Rust code that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
• Collaborate with other teams at Fastly on interfaces to Compute@Edge services
• Design and implement both low- and high-level APIs for interacting with edge services
• Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
• Contribute to the Rust and WebAssembly open source ecosystems

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

What We're Looking For

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience with high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust
• Experience with networking/distributed/cloud systems
• Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code
• Pragmatic approach, with a willingness to invest as much energy into maintenance as into new code
• Interest in mentoring within the team through coaching, delegation, and reviews
• Formal CS education is not required; demonstrable experience is sufficient

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Rust or other systems languages
• Experience with API design in functional languages
• Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems
• Experience with and interest in technical writing
• Interest in open source contribution

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements

This position is based out of Fastly’s New York City office. Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $155,370 to $194,210.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits

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 that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?

• We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), company paid holidays, paid time off and paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.