Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fastly is a company that helps people stay better connected through its edge cloud platform. They are seeking a Staff Hardware Design Engineer to design and implement the hardware infrastructure for their services, ensuring high performance and scalability while collaborating with various internal and external teams.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with software engineering teams, supply chain, vendors, and other leaders or groups to evolve the Fastly hardware infrastructure based on new requirements, constraints, and/or changing technology
- Develop specifications, RFPs, and other related requirements documentation showcasing the Fastly requirements and design principles for the overall life cycle of the platform and infrastructure
- Play an active role in the hardware selection process by guiding vendors to understand our requirements, test early engineering samples of next-gen hardware (on and offsite)
- Identify and drive development for off the shelf, semi-custom, and custom SKUs where required from partners or vendors to maximize CAPEX efficiency/TCO while balancing system performance
- Contribute to the hardware engineering team in the implementation of hardware, testing, firmware, and BIOS changes, including working with operations on keeping the fleet current
- Collaborate on the testing of hardware - components and system in the lab, pre-production environment, and in production to make data driven decisions on the hardware architecture and vendors
- Work cross functionally to troubleshoot and triage hardware throughout the full life cycle of the hardware platforms
- Engage application development teams to ensure compatibility and assist in performance evaluation to meet platform requirements and expectations
- Mentor junior engineering developers, operations, and infrastructure staff
- Assist in vendor quality activities not limited to: First Article Inspections (FAI), site audit, and root cause analysis
Skills
- 8+ years of experience with hardware system architecture and associated tradeoffs that include software, hardware, operational cost, and mechanical aspects
- Experience collaborating with a broad range of roles, senior leadership, stakeholders and vendors/partners
- You are obsessed with detailed and timely documentation on all aspects involved with the hardware and tooling
- Strong foundation of management platforms and tools: console servers, IPMI, SSH, PXE, and telemetry systems
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for both internal and external facing situations
- Extensive knowledge and experience of storage and memory subsystems
- Experience with firmware development, programming, bash scripting, tooling creation and maintenance
- Experience with CDN hardware and software architecture
- Knowledge in open source operating systems, hypervisors, and orchestration frameworks
- Background in test automation
- Deep understanding of various CPU architectures
Benefits
- Equity and discretionary bonus programs
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Family planning
- Mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program
- Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
- A Flexible Vacation policy
- Up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
- 401(k) (including company match)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- 11 paid local holidays
- 12 paid company wellness days
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