Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fastly operates an edge cloud platform that helps customers create secure, reliable digital experiences by processing applications close to end users. The Software Development Engineer - API Services will implement features and improvements for high-throughput, globally distributed Control Plane systems, collaborate across teams, contribute to infrastructure automation and code reviews, and participate in on-call support.
Responsibilities
- Implement projects and features that require interaction with neighboring systems, working across groups to solve issues and implement changes
- Contribute to and facilitate team discussions, respecting and incorporating differing opinions
- Provide useful design and code review feedback to your teammates
- Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team by working with tools and frameworks like Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Chef
- Help evolve manual tasks into more reliable, automated systems
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teammates
- Help onboard and support new team members
- Take the lead in solving problems of diverse scope, with guidance from senior teammates as needed
- Participate in an on-call rotation
Skills
- * You have 1-3 years of related development experience
- * Working knowledge of GoLang, with a desire to build deeper hands-on expertise
- * Exposure to cloud providers (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- * Good understanding of core engineering concepts within your functional area
- * Able to execute on features that require interaction with neighboring applications or services
- * Growing understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
- * Comfortable taking on well-scoped projects with support from senior teammates
- * Good written and verbal communication skills
- * A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic
- * Eager to learn new domains, grow your skills, and take on more scope over time
- * Open to working with teams distributed across different time zones
- This position will require you to be available during core business hours (Mountain/Pacific Time) and occasional nights and weekends as required for on-call support
- This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager
- We may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US
- * Envoy
- * API Gateways
- * Varnish, VCL
- There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Family planning support.
- Mental health support and Employee Assistance Program.
- Life, disability, and accident insurance.
- Flexible Vacation policy.
- Up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave.
- 401(k), including company match.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- 12 paid local holidays in 2026.
- 12 paid company wellness days in 2026.
- Hybrid and remote work locations.
- Flexibility to split time between the office and home.
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