Senior Engineer - CI/CD Pipelines

Please note: You MUST CURRENTLY reside within a commutable distance to London to be considered for this position

The Fastly Build Services team is responsible for continuous integration and artifact management, as well as software deployment tooling for Fastly’s product. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team who is excited to work in a collaborative environment, is proactive, and excited about automating. You will play a key role in extending our tooling with the goal of automation and self-service for development teams.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement software improvements to our existing tools for build, test, and deployment automation
• Partner with engineering teams to build scalable tools and infrastructure to build and test their software
• Evolve practices around CI/CD processes
• Iterate on improvements to engineering best practices in a collaborative environment
• Share your knowledge, views, and experience
• Collaborate with peers on ways Release Engineering can improve functionality, performance, and scale
• Participate in on-call rotation as required, and agree to respond to incidents within the team's SLA while on-call

What We're Looking For

• You should have experience writing clear and maintainable software and system configurations and be proficient with Linux systems
• You have 4+ years of hands-on experience in scripting, release engineering, and/or configuration management, even better if you have built services from the ground-up
• Friendly, approachable, responder to regular inquiries from individuals across the wider organization
• Experience designing and developing software, as well as managing development toolchains
• Familiarity with tools, technologies, and platforms like: Github Actions, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Chef, Datadog, and AWS
• Experience in consolidating CI systems
• Ability to collaborate and communicate on projects (champion, demo, and pitch)
• An analytical thinker with strong attention to detail

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these: 

• Scripting in languages such as bash, Go, python, and ruby is a plus
• Kubernetes deployment tooling and test automation experience
• Comfort working and communicating in distributed teams across time zones
• Excellent presentation skills for both internal and external conferences
• Agile delivery methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean
• Proficiency analyzing and debugging large-scale distributed systems

Work Hours:

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

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to New York NY or London, United Kingdom.

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.  

We are willing to consider remote candidates in New York (Remote) or London, United Kingdom (Remote).

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

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 designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.