Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Discretionary bonus programs

Job summary

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Compute Platform to scale our edge compute infrastructure. You’ll work on an advanced serverless platform built on open standards, enabling customers to run code securely at the edge with microsecond cold starts.

You will design high-quality APIs, collaborate across teams, and contribute to open source projects like Wasmtime while ensuring performance and reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of software development experience, with at least 3 in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust.
• Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code
• A willingness to dive into and learn bleeding-edge and developing technologies

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly with the team members and across other technical and product teams
• Contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
• Manage projects from a technical lead role driving project progress and communicating project status to stakeholders
• Write platform-level code in Rust that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
• Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
• Be responsible for a large scale production system with extremely high performance and availability requirements

Skills

Rust

Asynchronous code

High reliability

Cross-team collaboration

API design

Performance optimization

Tools

Wasmtime

Job description

the company helps people stay better connected with the things they love. the company’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. the company’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: 10/01/2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date: 12/31/2026

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

Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform

This team builds the platform for the company’s Compute – an advanced serverless platform built on open standards which runs on our global edge network. It’s designed to address the requirements of modern application development by empowering customers to run code in a highly secure execution environment with microsecond cold start times, at scale, on the edge.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join this multifaceted team and help scale our hosting infrastructure. In addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work, this role will involve cross-team collaboration, and designing high quality APIs for our customers to use services developed by other teams. There is also opportunity to contribute to open source projects (like Wasmtime) that are key parts of the Compute story.

What You'll Do:

• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly with the team members and across other technical and product teams
• Contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
• Manage projects from a technical lead role driving project progress and communicating project status to stakeholders
• Write platform-level code in Rust that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
• Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
• Be responsible for a large scale production system with extremely high performance and availability requirements

What We're Looking For:

• You have at least 7 years of software development experience, with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust.
• Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code
• A willingness to dive into and learn bleeding-edge and developing technologies

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems
• Experience with multiprocess scheduling and memory management
• Experience with systems-level optimization
• Experience with and interest in technical writing
• History of open source contribution

  Work Hours

  • This position will require you to be available during core business hours, with a strong preference for Western and Mountain time zones. You will be required to be part of the on call rotation for the team.

  Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

  This position is open to Hybrid and Remote Work Locations.

  The preferred locations for this position are:

  • San Francisco, United States
  • Denver, United States
  • Remote, United States

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

  We are also willing to consider remote candidates in the United States.

  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.

  Salary

  The estimated salary range for this position is $211,370- $253,644.

  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 the company’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

  Benefits

  We care about you. the company works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with the company. Curious about our offerings?

  We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.

  Why the company?

  We have a huge impact.

  the company is a small company with a big reach. Not only doour customershave a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number ofopen 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.

  the company is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. the company 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.

  the company 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.