Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Production Engineer

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

Job summary

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineer to scale and manage a Kubernetes-based control plane across multi-cloud environments. You will design, deploy, and operate infrastructure in cloud and on-prem environments, while improving reliability and performance.

The role requires strong Linux, Go and Python skills, plus experience with Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tools. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams across time zones to onboard services and extend platform capabilities,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience running high availability distributed systems.
• Designs services with fault tolerance across geographies.
• Experience deploying multi-tiered services in multi-cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals and debugging with tcpdump.
• Proficient in Go and Python, able to modify large code bases and create new tooling.
• Familiar with Terraform and cloud provisioning (AWS/GCP).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices, including PR reviews on GitHub.
• Proficient in observability with Prometheus, Datadog or Grafana.
• Experience collaborating across time zones in distributed teams.
• Awareness of AI tooling to accelerate work (e.g., Claude Code).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud and data center infrastructure for rapid deployments.
• Diagnose performance and reliability issues across stack components.
• Deploy and support complex third-party and internally developed apps.
• Develop tooling to automate maintenance and deployment of servers and services.
• Collaborate with internal users to evolve platform and operations.
• Drive projects independently or with global teams across time zones.
• Configure access and manage resources in a multi-cloud environment.

Skills

Kubernetes clusters

Go

Python

Linux systems

CI/CD & GitOps

Terraform

AWS & GCP provisioning

Prometheus/Datadog/Grafana

Distributed teamwork

AI tooling (Claude Code)

GitHub PRs

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Flux

Helm

GitHub

Job description

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineer to scale and manage a Kubernetes-based control plane across multi-cloud environments. You will design, deploy, and operate infrastructure in cloud and on-prem environments, while improving reliability and performance.

The role requires strong Linux, Go and Python skills, plus experience with Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tools. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams across time zones to onboard services and extend platform capabilities,