Software Engineer - Fastly Build Services

Full Time
London, UK
11 months ago

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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Software Engineer - CI/CD Pipelines

The Fastly Build Services team is responsible for continuous integration, artifact management, source code management and software deployment tooling for Fastly’s product. We are looking for a CI/CD Engineer to join our team who is excited to work in a collaborative environment, is proactive, and excited about automating. You will play a key role in extending our tooling with the goal of automation and self-service for development teams.

What You'll Do

  • Design and implement software improvements to our existing tools for build, test, and deployment automation
  • Administrate CI/CD infrastructure at scale
  • Partner with engineering teams to build scalable tools and infrastructure to build and test their software
  • Evolve practices around CI/CD processes
  • Iterate on improvements to engineering best practices in a collaborative environment
  • Share your knowledge, views, and experience
  • Collaborate with peers on ways Release Engineering can improve functionality, performance, and scale
  • Participate in on-call rotation as required, and agree to respond to incidents within the team's SLA while on-call

What We're Looking For

  • You have a passion for engineering and automation
  • You have hands-on experience in scripting, release engineering, or configuration management
  • You are familiar with using GitHub Actions for building, maintaining, and automating CI/CD pipelines
  • You have knowledge of tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes and Artifactory
  • You should have experience writing software and system configurations and be proficient with Linux systems
  • Ability to collaborate and communicate on projects (champion, demo, and pitch)
  • Currently resident in the Greater London area

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

  • Scripting in languages such as bash, Go, and Groovy is a plus
  • Kubernetes deployment tooling and test automation experience
  • Comfort working and communicating in distributed teams across time zones
  • Excellent presentation skills for both internal and external conferences
  • Agile delivery methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean

Work Hours:

  • This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is based from our London Office and IS NOT a remote role.

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

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

Benefits: 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.

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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