Senior Data Engineer

Webhosting; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 155,370 - 186,444; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

11 paid holidays + wellness days

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a Data Engineer to scale our data platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and to build robust data pipelines that empower data scientists, analysts and business decision-makers.

You will design data models, dashboards and analytics products, promote data governance, and drive self-service analytics across the organization. The role operates within a largely hybrid model with collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience building data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Ability to design and optimize data infrastructure for scale and reliability.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts and business stakeholders to define requirements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with executives and stakeholders to prioritize and fulfill analytics needs.
• Identify KPIs and work with business teams to define them.
• Design and build data products, models and dashboards for data-backed decisions.
• Promote data governance, discoverability and trusted analytics across the organization.
• Deliver self-service analytics solutions and educate users on their use.
• Communicate progress, risks and project outcomes to stakeholders.

Skills

Data engineering

GCP

Data pipelines

Analytics

Tools

GCP

SQL

Job description

Fastly ·United States, San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible – at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.

We’re building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Posting Open Date:July 13th, 2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date*:September 30th, 2026

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Fastly’s Analytics team empowers leaders across the business with actionable data to drive key decisions. The team is working to expand and mature a best-in-class internal data platform. As a Data Engineer, you will contribute to the evolution of our data infrastructure, optimizing pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), scaling ingestion of complex data sources, and following best practices for performance and reliability. This is an opportunity to contribute to impactful projects in a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative environment, supporting data scientists, data analysts and business analysts across the organization.

What You’ll Do:

• You’ll collaborate and partner with executives, stakeholders, and decision-makers to prioritize, design, and fulfill their data analytics needs
• You’ll identify KPIs driving business growth and performance and work closely with the business teams to define them
• You’ll work across the data stack to design and build various data products (data models, dashboards, analysis) that enable the business to make data backed decisions
• You’ll help garner trust in data from the business by documenting analytics best practices, assisting with data discoverability, governance, and accuracy
• You’ll promote and drive a self-service data culture by building easy to use analytics products and teaching the business users how to use them
• You’ll communicate progress, risks, and completion of projects to stakeholders

Work Hours:This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

For office/hybrid role only

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The estimated salary range for this position is $155,370.00 to $186,444.00.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

• We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees.
• We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• For 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.

Why Fastly?

We have a huge impact.Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives . Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

We value diversity.Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful — every day.

We are passionate.Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at [e-mail] or 501-287-4901.