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About the Role

The Monetization Platform team owns the systems that translate customer network activity into commercial relationships, including billing infrastructure, usage APIs, and reporting. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of highly-available, scalable systems to support new product lines, complex pricing models, and growing usage.

Responsibilities

• Design, ship, and own billing infrastructure, usage APIs, and backend services, from technical proposal and design docs through implementation, testing, production rollout, and on-call support.
• Use AI coding agents as part of your daily workflow.
• Take ambiguous or broadly-scoped problems and turn them into well-defined technical plans.
• Partner with stakeholders across engineering, product, business systems, and billing to align on requirements and deliver impactful solutions.
• Develop design and architecture documents for collaboration on new systems and APIs.
• Evolve the tools and pipelines that power billing, usage reporting, and orderability for Fastly's growing product catalog.
• Consider stability, performance, and scalability in designs and team guidance.
• Mentor and grow other engineers through code review, pairing, and technical leadership.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing and operating highly available, reliable data pipelines and distributed systems that process large volumes of data at scale (typically 7+ years of related experience).
• 5+ years building systems that collect, aggregate, and derive insights from large datasets.
• Experience shipping forecasting or reporting features that stakeholders depended on.
• Proven ability to drive projects end-to-end, from design doc through post-launch.
• Experience designing for downstream impact, considering data integrity and observability.
• Proficiency in testing and observability practices.
• Experience with relational and non-relational storage systems (MySQL, BigTable, BigQuery, Dynamo, Cassandra).
• Experience with pub/sub style message queues (NSQ, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, Kinesis).
• Comfort using coding agents as a daily driver.

Skills

• Billing infrastructure
• Usage APIs
• Backend services
• AI coding agents
• Technical planning
• Stakeholder partnership
• Design and architecture documentation
• Data pipelines
• Distributed systems
• Large-scale data processing
• Data aggregation
• Data insights
• Forecasting
• Reporting
• Testing
• Observability
• Relational storage systems
• Non-relational storage systems
• Pub/sub message queues
• RESTful API design
• Go development
• Cloud Technologies

Location

• San Francisco, CA, USA

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Staff
• 7+ years related experience
• 5+ years experience

Salary/Compensations

• Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
• This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Family planning support
• Mental health support
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Accident insurance
• Flexible Vacation policy
• 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 401(k) with company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 11 paid local holidays (for 2026)
• 12 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 their 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 most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.
• We're building a more trustworthy Internet.
• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach.
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’.

Equal Opportunity

• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• 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.