Staff Engineer, Edge Compute Platform

Fastly, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 211,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Compute Platform team. You will help scale our hosting infrastructure, write platform-level Rust code, and drive API designs that other teams rely on across the edge network.

This role emphasizes cross-team collaboration, performance analysis, and delivering reliable, scalable services with microsecond cold starts. You may contribute to open source projects like Wasmtime and participate in on-call rotations while aligning with

Qualifications

• You have at least 7 years of software development experience, with at least 3 in high-reliability systems programming.
• You are comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent Rust code.
• You are willing to dive into bleeding-edge technologies and contribute to open source.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and communicate across technical and product teams.
• Contribute to code reviews and improve the codebase and processes.
• Manage projects from a technical lead role driving progress and status.
• Write platform-level Rust code addressing host concerns and performance.
• Analyze and address performance and stability for high-scale requirements.
• Be responsible for a large-scale production system with high availability.

Skills

Rust

Asynchronous programming

Concurrency

Open source contributions

Security in multi-tenant systems

Memory management

Systems-level optimization

Technical writing

Tools

Wasmtime

Job description

Fastly is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Compute Platform team. You will help scale our hosting infrastructure, write platform-level Rust code, and drive API designs that other teams rely on across the edge network.

This role emphasizes cross-team collaboration, performance analysis, and delivering reliable, scalable services with microsecond cold starts. You may contribute to open source projects like Wasmtime and participate in on-call rotations while aligning with