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 most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

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Senior Software Engineer - Domain Services

The Domain Services team is responsible for building solutions that enable Fastly customers to manage their domains, DNS, and TLS certificates on our platform. We operate an ICANN-accredited domains backend and API, which lets us create truly innovative and unique offerings in the domains ecosystem. 

We are looking for a highly motivated engineer with experience in delivering scalable and resilient backend systems who is interested in becoming knowledgeable in the TLS and domain registry spaces. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead projects from idea to delivery, collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers, and grow/adapt our systems to meet the business's and our customers' needs.

What You'll Do:

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain applications that involve Fastly’s customer-facing TLS and domain-related products
• Take ownership of features from start to finish, facilitate reviews and discussion with peers and partners, and ensure features delivered meet product requirements
• Work in close partnership with your engineering leaders to build out and execute on everything from project design to engineering standards
• Clearly communicate upward and outward to set and adjust expectations with your manager and partners
• Collaborate with your teammates and other engineers across the organization especially through code and design reviews
• Participate in on-call rotation

What We're Looking For: 

• Hands-on experience developing applications in Go – most Senior Engineers at Fastly have at least 5 years of relevant coding experience 
• Experience scaling applications hosted in a cloud environment
• Understanding ob best principles for system design
• Able to implement reasonably well defined projects with minimal guidance
• Eager to learn new domains and share what you’ve learned with others
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and ability to produce quality documentation
• A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic
• Experience working with teams distributed across different time zones

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

• Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes/Docker, etc.
• Experience working with metric collection systems such as Prometheus, etc.
• Familiarity or experience with TLS, mTLS, and Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) 
• Familiarity or experience with Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) and interacting with domain registries

Work Hours: 

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as needed in the on-call rotation. 

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: 

This position is open to candidates near any Fastly US office. Preferred locations for this position are:

• New York, NY
• Denver, CO
• San Francisco, CA

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

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary: 

The estimated base salary range for this position is $167,790 to $209,740.

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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