Staff Software Engineer - Observability Products

Staff Software Engineer - Observability Products

The Observability Products group is responsible for developing a new and expanding suite of observability-related products at Fastly. We’re looking for an experienced, highly collaborative software engineer to join us as we bring a best-in-class observability experience to Fastly customers. As a part of this group, you’ll work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering to design, evolve, and build the systems and APIs that leverage and derive valuable insights from the real-time and historic data available within the Fastly platform.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, maintain, and test systems & tools within the Observability product-line
• Work directly with stakeholders and the Product team to find and evaluate opportunities for new Observability products and features
• Design systems that can evolve as we move between different phases of the product lifecycle; from experiments and proof of concepts to stable, performant, and scalable products
• Develop design and architecture documents as a way of collaborating across groups in the design of new systems and APIs
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and customers to craft systems that deliver best-in-class observability products to Fastly customers
• 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

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional evenings and weekends as required for on-call rotation

What We're Looking For

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience programming in Go or similar languages
• Experience designing, developing, and testing REST APIs
• Experience with projects related to observability and/or low-latency data collection and analysis
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
• Experience with event-driven systems and/or time-series data
• Experience writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
• Experience with complex production systems that support the needs of a rapidly growing business
• Experience collaborating across groups and functions, including Product and design teams, to understand customer needs
• Ability to mentor, guide, and coach team members
• Ability to learn new skills and share what you’ve learned with the broader team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Go development
• Kubernetes or similar orchestration platform
• Relational and non-relational storage systems (e.g. MySQL, BigQuery, MongoDB, ClickHouse, ElasticSearch, Graphite)
• Message queues (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)
• Full stack experience with a React front end

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements

This position is a remote role and open to candidates residing in the following locations: Canada (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.