Software Development Engineer
Fastly•San Francisco, CA
•$155,370 - $186,444•Hybrid
About The Position
The API Services team owns critical services to ensure the performance and reliability of Fastly's Control Plane. As a Software Development Engineer, you will implement features and improvements to these high-throughput, globally distributed systems, working closely with more senior engineers and other internal Fastly teams to support critical components of our infrastructure.
Requirements
- 1-3 years of related development experience
- Working knowledge of GoLang, with a desire to build deeper hands-on expertise
- Exposure to cloud providers (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Good understanding of core engineering concepts within your functional area
- Able to execute on features that require interaction with neighboring applications or services
- Growing understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Comfortable taking on well-scoped projects with support from senior teammates
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic
- Eager to learn new domains, grow your skills, and take on more scope over time
- Open to working with teams distributed across different time zones
Nice To Haves
- Envoy
- API Gateways
- Varnish, VCL
Responsibilities
- Implement projects and features that require interaction with neighboring systems, working across groups to solve issues and implement changes
- Contribute to and facilitate team discussions, respecting and incorporating differing opinions
- Provide useful design and code review feedback to your teammates
- Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team by working with tools and frameworks like Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Chef
- Help evolve manual tasks into more reliable, automated systems
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teammates
- Help onboard and support new team members
- Take the lead in solving problems of diverse scope, with guidance from senior teammates as needed
- Participate in an on-call rotation
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Family planning
- mental health support
- Employee Assistance Program
- Life, Disability, and Accident Insurance
- Flexible Vacation policy
- 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
- 401(k) (including company match)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- 12 paid local holidays
- 12 paid company wellness days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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