Who you are
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
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
What the job involves
This team builds the platform for Fastly’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
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
The application process
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 12/31/2026
Benefits
Parental support and beyond: We support our families by offering generous time off for parental leave. And beyond that, we work hard to build a culture that allows for all employees to have the life outside work that they desire year round.
Health and wellness
Your well-being matters here. Our health plans offer a variety of options, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, mental health resources, and more.
Invest in your future
We offer 401(k)/retirement plans, employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP), and reimbursements for learning and development programs — so we can support your ongoing growth and success.
Keep learning and growing: Helping people go further means nurturing their talent. Through annual reimbursements for employee learning activities, regular hangouts and advice from our Senior Staff, talks from industry leaders, and cultural events — we offer tons of opportunities for people to learn. And we’re always looking to grow as a company, too: we collect employee engagement and experience data annually and leverage our Employee Experience Champion Network to understand employee feedback, so we can keep improving.