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About the Role

This team is responsible for a wide variety of tools that are used by Fastly’s customers to create, manage, and operate their resources on the Fastly platform. One of these tools is a ‘local emulator’ for the Fastly Compute product, which allows developers building Compute services to test the behavior of their service code in a wide variety of scenarios. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join this team and become the primary maintainer of the tool, collaborating with other members of the team and a number of other teams within Fastly Engineering to ensure that the tool supports all of the functionality and testing capability that Fastly’s customers expect. This role will involve extensive cross-team collaboration, designing high-quality interfaces for developers who use the emulation tool, and significant involvement in a variety of open source projects which are incorporated in the tool (or used in its development and support).

Responsibilities

Be responsible for a developer tool which provides critical capabilities for Fastly’s customers
Ensure that the tool provides faithful emulation of the production environment while also offering controls to influence the behavior of the emulated environment
Work closely with Fastly’s product and engineering management teams to develop a roadmap for the emulation tool and ensure that the roadmap stays aligned with the production environment
Work directly with customers who use the tool to support their usage and learn what additional functionality would be beneficial for them
Contribute to the Rust and WebAssembly open source ecosystems

Requirements

At least 5 years of software development experience, with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust, alternately in C/C++, and some knowledge of functional programming
A minimum of 2 years of experience with distributed or cloud systems
Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code

Skills

Rust
WebAssembly
API design
Technical writing
Public speaking
Open source contribution

Location

New York City

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$181,220 to $217,464

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Family planning
Mental health support
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
11 paid local holidays
121 paid company wellness days

About the Company

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’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. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.
We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open 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. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly 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.
We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team.

Equal Opportunity

Fastly 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, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901.