Staff Engineer — Edge Config & Go Microservices

Doist; New York, San Francisco, Denver (NY, CA, CO); Hybrid; USD 211,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Flexible vacation policy

Paid sick leave (up to 18 days)

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Control Systems to help shape the edge configuration platform. You will work across teams to deploy and improve high-availability services, balancing long-term quality with rapid delivery.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, modernization of legacy systems, and mentoring engineers while participating in on-call rotations. Hybrid work options are available, with a preference for candidates near key U.S. offices.

Qualifications

• Significant domain-relevant engineering experience building highly reliable distributed systems (7+ years).
• Solid understanding of the Go programming language.
• Willingness to learn Perl to support core infrastructure.
• Ability to drive and deliver complex projects across multiple teams and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support, deploy, and share responsibility for large-scale Perl production systems storing and shipping config changes globally.
• Evolve legacy systems into maintainable, performant Go microservices, driving architectural improvements.
• Provide technical leadership, coordinate with stakeholders, and motivate progress across projects.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure configuration systems meet new feature requirements.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Perl

Remote collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Fastly is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Control Systems to help shape the edge configuration platform. You will work across teams to deploy and improve high-availability services, balancing long-term quality with rapid delivery.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, modernization of legacy systems, and mentoring engineers while participating in on-call rotations. Hybrid work options are available, with a preference for candidates near key U.S. offices.