SOFTWARE ENGINEER – CONTROL SYSTEMS
We’re looking for talented software engineers with experience in building backend systems to join our team. This role is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the platform to deliver our core CDN configurations as well as our future Edge Cloud products. We have local offices in San Francisco, Portland and other locations. Remote workers are also encouraged to apply. Pacific time zone or close to is preferred.
To be effective in this role, you would have:
Experience with Perl, Go and other languages in interdependent environments.
Experience with database systems and applications.
Experience migrating data models, operating and deploying an always-on system.
Experience building APIs to handle complex and sensitive data.
Experience in distributed systems, caching and HTTP APIs.
Experience improving the reliability and efficiency of fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Experience with database and system profiling.
We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. You’ll be a good candidate if you have experience and/or interest in SOME of these:
Maintaining and developing large-scale and/or global production systems
Linux/UNIX systems, both high and low level
Writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
Expertise in designing, analyzing, profiling, and troubleshooting APIs and large-scale, distributed systems
Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, release deployment)
Fastly provides equal employment opportunity without regard to an applicant’s race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Fastly. Please inform us if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.

