Go Software Engineer - Edge API Services (Remote)

Fastly; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the API Services team to help ensure performance and reliability of our control plane. You will implement features for high-throughput, globally distributed systems and collaborate with senior engineers across internal teams.

You will work on designing and reviewing code, contribute to infrastructure with Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Chef, and help automate tasks while supporting on-call responsibilities and cross-time-zone

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of related development experience.
• Proficiency in 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.

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.

Skills

GoLang

Cloud providers (AWS, GCP)

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins

Chef

Distributed systems

Microservices

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Chef

Job description

Fastly is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the API Services team to help ensure performance and reliability of our control plane. You will implement features for high-throughput, globally distributed systems and collaborate with senior engineers across internal teams.

You will work on designing and reviewing code, contribute to infrastructure with Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Chef, and help automate tasks while supporting on-call responsibilities and cross-time-zone