Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

Fastly; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Cloud and Container Services team. You will scale and manage a Kubernetes-based control plane across multi-cloud and on-premise environments, enabling rapid deployments and secure, reliable services for Fastly’s edge cloud platform.

You’ll work on expanding platform capabilities, onboarding new services, and driving efficiency while maintaining strong security.

Qualifications

• Experience running high availability systems across distributed infrastructure.
• Production-grade Kubernetes clusters in multiple regions/clouds/data centers.
• Go and Python programming; ability to read and extend large codebases; build medium tools.
• Terraform for infrastructure management.
• Experience provisioning resources on AWS and GCP; multi-cloud deployments.
• CI/CD and GitOps; code-driven infrastructure and PR reviews on GitHub.
• Monitoring with Prometheus, Datadog and Grafana.
• Distributed teams across time zones; effective collaboration.
• Experience using AI tooling to accelerate work (e.g., Claude Code).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud and container infrastructure.
• Diagnose performance and reliability issues across stack.
• Deploy and support complex applications.
• Write automation tools for deployment/maintenance.
• Collaborate with internal users to evolve platform.
• Lead projects across time zones; drive cross-team work.
• Configure access and manage multi-cloud operations.

Skills

Distributed teamwork across time zones

Go programming

Python programming

AI tooling experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Prometheus

Flux

Helm

Datadog

Grafana

GitHub

CI/CD

GitOps

Claude Code

Job description

Fastly is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Cloud and Container Services team. You will scale and manage a Kubernetes-based control plane across multi-cloud and on-premise environments, enabling rapid deployments and secure, reliable services for Fastly’s edge cloud platform.

You’ll work on expanding platform capabilities, onboarding new services, and driving efficiency while maintaining strong security.