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Staff Software Engineer - Monetization Engineering (Backend)

The Fastly Monetization Engineering team is looking for a technical leader with experience building and growing large-scale data pipelines. You will work across functions to design and create tools and systems for the Billing Platform, improve visibility, and handle the rapidly growing family of products. You will also help expand our ability to gain value from the data pipelines powering our real-time logging, stats, and control plane applications. This position could be filled at either the Staff or Principal level depending on your experience.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and participate in the design, building, deployment, and maintenance of globally distributed systems that collect and aggregate large amounts of data, as well as the tools to derive insights from that data including forecasting
• Work in close partnership with your engineering leaders to build out and execute everything from project design to engineering standards 
• Create solid technical solutions to complex & ambiguous problems with a focus on reliability, security, performance, observability, & scalability
• Cross functional collaboration & ability to proactively look for opportunities to solve problems & align resources to solve a wide variety of projects
• Maturity in technical communication upward and outward & aligning priorities
• Make your support available to your team when and where they need it — a time zone compatible with the continental US, where your team will be, is a must for this role
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship & support to team members
• Participate in an on-call rotation

What We’re Looking For 

• Understanding of the challenges involved in building, operating and maintaining scalable and reliable streaming data pipelines
• Experience in projects related to low-latency data collection and analysis
• Experience with programming in Go or Ruby 
• Writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
• A history of technical leadership for highly scalable & reliable software
• A proactive technical lead who can execute effectively with a distributed team
• Thoughtful, customer-driven approach to design and implementation
• A history of mentoring and nurturing a diverse team

We'll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Go development
• Relational and non-relational storage systems (MySQL, BigTable, BigQuery, Dynamo, Cassandra)
• Cloud Technologies
• Pub/sub style message queues (NSQ, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, Kinesis)
• Stream processing pipelines

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

Relocation IS NOT available for this position.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $181,220 to $226,520. 

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: 

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), an open vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2023, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.

Why Fastly?

• 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 love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly, participate in hands-on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand. 

• 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. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

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. 

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