Staff Engineer - API Services

Fastly•Quinte West, ON

13d•$211,370 - $253,644•Hybrid

About The Position

The API Services team owns critical services to ensure the performance and reliability of Fastly’s Control Plane. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will drive the technical vision and architectural evolution of these high-throughput, globally distributed systems. This role involves leading cross-functional initiatives with numerous internal Fastly teams to support and scale critical components of our infrastructure.

Requirements

At least 7 years of related development experience, including a significant track record of building and scaling global-scale distributed systems.
Hands-on experience developing applications in GoLang
Solid experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
Track record of process improvements through automation
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, etc)
Deep expertise and mastery of distributed systems and microservices architecture, including hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale production services.
Proven ability to independently drive and deliver large, complex, and ambiguous projects that span multiple teams and require significant cross-organizational influence.
Strong written and verbal communication skills
A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic
Experience working with teams distributed across different time zones

Nice To Haves

Envoy
API Gateways
Varnish, VCL
Service Mesh implementation/configuration
Experience with declarative configuration languages such as CUE

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development for highly-available, scalable, and distributed systems to enable Fastly to meet the challenges of sustained growth and scale.
Mentor engineers across the team in developing applications in Go and advocate for software development best practices and high-quality code standards.
Drive significant process and architecture improvements by evolving manual tasks and complex legacy components into reliable, automatic, and highly efficient systems.
Define and communicate the long-term technical roadmap for API Services and collaborate with engineering leaders and principal engineers to align cross-team dependencies and strategies.
Anticipate, design, and implement major architectural changes to ensure the continued reliability and scaling needs of the Fastly Control Systems for years to come.
Define and champion Platform Engineering best practices for the API Services team, improving the foundational infrastructure used by internal developers.
Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team by working with tools and frameworks like Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Chef
Participate in an on-call rotation