Remote Senior Go Engineer, Edge Security

Fastly, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 181,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

12 paid holidays

Wellness days

Job summary

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Security Products to build robust backend services in Go for large-scale web security. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to design, implement, test, and deploy security-focused features across our edge platform.

The role emphasizes executing high-quality code, optimizing performance, and contributing to documentation. You will work in a distributed, remote-friendly environment with on-call rotations and North American

Qualifications

• 4+ years of enterprise software development experience.
• Knowledge of HTTP and networking protocols (Varnish, H2O, etc.).
• Hands-on experience developing and operating backend systems for web applications.
• Experience working in a collaborative, distributed team environment.
• Linux, automation, and shell scripting skills.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team developing backend systems for large scale web applications in Go
• Write clean, modular, robust code to implement the desired requirements
• Communicate seamlessly with the team members and across other technical and product teams
• Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and other team processes
• Code optimization and performance tuning

Skills

Go backend

HTTP networking

Network security

Distributed teams

Linux & shell

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Security Products to build robust backend services in Go for large-scale web security. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to design, implement, test, and deploy security-focused features across our edge platform.

The role emphasizes executing high-quality code, optimizing performance, and contributing to documentation. You will work in a distributed, remote-friendly environment with on-call rotations and North American