Staff Software Engineer, Edge Compute Platform (Rust)

Fastly, Inc.; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 211,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity program

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Compute Platform to scale its edge Compute platform and hosting infrastructure. You will design APIs, collaborate across teams, and contribute to open source initiatives like Wasmtime on the edge.

The role emphasizes secure, high-performance, scalable systems and cross-team collaboration, with opportunities to influence architecture and tooling. Expect remote-friendly options within the United States.

Qualifications

• 7+ years software development experience with at least 3 in high-reliability systems programming.
• Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code.
• Willingness to dive into bleeding-edge developing technologies.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly with team members and cross-functional teams.
• Contribute to code reviews, improve codebase and team processes.
• Manage projects from a technical lead role, driving progress and reporting status to stakeholders.
• Write platform-level Rust code handling host concerns like back pressure and resource limits.
• Analyze performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements.
• Be responsible for a large-scale production system with high performance and availability.

Skills

Rust

Async code

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant security

Open source

Tools

Wasmtime

Job description

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Compute Platform to scale its edge Compute platform and hosting infrastructure. You will design APIs, collaborate across teams, and contribute to open source initiatives like Wasmtime on the edge.

The role emphasizes secure, high-performance, scalable systems and cross-team collaboration, with opportunities to influence architecture and tooling. Expect remote-friendly options within the United States.