Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Fastly; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Equity options

Flexible vacation policy

Paid holidays

Job summary

Fastly in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Cloud and Container Services team. You will scale and manage Fastly’s Kubernetes-based control plane across public clouds and on-prem environments while enhancing platform features and reliability.

You will design and operate multi-cloud infrastructure, build automation tools, and collaborate across time zones to deliver secure, scalable services. Strong Go and Python skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related experience in senior engineering roles.
• Experience building production-grade Kubernetes clusters across regions or data centers.
• Strong Go and Python coding abilities; able to read and modify code in a large codebase.
• Proficiency with Terraform and cloud providers (AWS, GCP).
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps practices; familiarity with GitHub workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure to enable reliable deployment in multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues across the stack.
• Deploy and support complex 3rd party and internal applications.
• Write tools to automate maintenance and deployment of servers and services.
• Collaborate with internal users and evolve the platform using solid engineering practices.
• Lead or participate in projects across time zones.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Linux admin

CI/CD

GitOps

Terraform

Multi-cloud

Cloud platforms

Tools

Prometheus

Datadog

Grafana

GitHub

Flux

Helm

Job description

Fastly in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Cloud and Container Services team. You will scale and manage Fastly’s Kubernetes-based control plane across public clouds and on-prem environments while enhancing platform features and reliability.

You will design and operate multi-cloud infrastructure, build automation tools, and collaborate across time zones to deliver secure, scalable services. Strong Go and Python skills are essential.