Staff Engineer - Infrastructure Automation

Fastly•San Francisco, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue. We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us. Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure Automation Fastly’s Infrastructure Automation team plays a key role in the expansion of Fastly’s global network. We build systems and processes used to deploy and provision data centers which deliver a significant share of the internet to users all over the world. We’re seeking a well rounded software engineer with a background rooted in hardware and/or data center infrastructure to help us build and deploy the next generation of Fastly’s edge infrastructure. This role is about more than closing tickets, you’ll be expected to work closely with our peers on the Data Center Infrastructure, Provisioning and Network Operations teams to help shape the processes and tools which allow Fastly to build and deploy infrastructure at an increasing scale.

Requirements

Significant related professional experience developing software. Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have more than 7 years of related experience
Experience with servers, networking, and data center infrastructure
Hands on systems or infrastructure Engineering (Go, Python, Rust, or similar) building automation for bare‑metal provisioning, OS imaging, and configuration management at fleet scale.
Track record of writing resilient and maintainable Rust or another modern language
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas across multi-functional teams

Nice To Haves

Practical experience with infrastructure provisioning or automation
Experience with server hardware from multiple vendors. (iDRAC vs iLO, for example)
A history with secure computing: do you know anything about Secure Boot? Encryption? TPMs?
Deep expertise in boot & hardware pipelines—PXE/UEFI HTTP, BMC / Redfish, secure boot, firmware flashing, and tools like Chef or Ansible.
Handson experience engineering UEFI / USB boot-shims that stream a Live OS over an out-of-band channel (Redfish virtual media, HTTPBoot, iPXE) to provide zero-touch diagnostics, patching, or full re-image; turning fleet-wide emergency recovery into a single pipeline run.
A background in building and operating software infrastructure running in GCP
Experience with Perl

Responsibilities

Build and deploy new functionality in Rust which facilitates the provisioning of new hardware as well as the maintenance of existing hardware
Architect new product features, functionality and processes to simplify the overall provisioning workflow and support exponential expansion of the Fastly edge fleet
Partner with software and infrastructure teams across Fastly to support the deployment of new infrastructure
Develop and improve software development processes including testing, CI/CD, etc
Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise and contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
Mentor and support other engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, innovation, and collaboration within the team