Senior Engineer - Monetization

Fastly•San Francisco, CA

4d•$181,220 - $217,464•Hybrid

About The Position

The Fastly Growth Engineering team is looking for an experienced, highly collaborative full-stack software engineer to evolve, design, build, and own systems & APIs that drive customer growth across Fastly’s product portfolio. Our team owns systems that help Fastly customers discover and adopt the right products for their use cases. You will design and build new services from the ground up, collaborate closely with product and platform teams, and take projects from ambiguous problem statements through to production.

Requirements

Hands-on experience designing and building reliable, large-scale backend systems - most Senior Engineers at Fastly have at least 5 years of relevant experience
Strong proficiency in at least one backend language, with the ability to pick up new languages and frameworks quickly
Experience designing and implementing new services or systems from scratch (greenfield development)
Experience with a relational database is required and nosql database is a big plus
Experience writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
A track record of taking ownership of projects (not just individual tasks) and driving them to successful outcomes
Experience authoring technical proposals and design documents to align stakeholders and guide implementation
Experience working across teams and functions to understand business needs and deliver software that meets them
Experience mentoring, guiding, and growing other engineers
Comfort operating in ambiguity. You can assess feasibility, identify constraints, and formulate a realistic plan even when the problem isn’t fully defined.
Ability to learn new skills and share what you’ve learned with the broader team

Nice To Haves

Experience with Go and/or React
Experience with AI/LLM technologies, recommendation systems, data science, or data modeling
Experience with or interest in Rust
Experience with event-driven architectures (ex: Kafka, message buses) and distributed systems at scale

Responsibilities

Design, build, and own new backend services and APIs end-to-end, from technical proposal through implementation, testing, and production rollout.
Contribute to frontend experiences that surface the team’s services to customers
Take ambiguous or broadly-scoped problems and turn them into well-defined technical plans that the team can execute on.
Author design and architectural documents and use them to drive alignment across engineering and product teams
Collaborate with internal platform teams, product managers, and stakeholders across the organization the understand needs and deliver impactful solutions
Consider stability, performance, and scalability in your designs and in the guidance you provide to the team
Mentor and grow other engineers on the team through code review, pairing, and technical leadership
Participate in an on-call rotation