Senior Data Engineer

Fastly’s Analytics team empowers leaders across the business with actionable data to drive key decisions. The team is working to expand and mature a best‑in‑class internal data platform. As a Data Engineer, you will contribute to the evolution of our data infrastructure, optimizing pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), scaling ingestion of complex data sources, and following best practices for performance and reliability.

This is an opportunity to contribute to impactful projects in a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative environment, supporting data scientists, data analysts and business analysts across the organization.

• Collaborate and partner with executives, stakeholders, and decision‑makers to prioritize, design, and fulfill their data analytics needs.
• Identify KPIs driving business growth and performance and work closely with the business teams to define them.
• Work across the data stack to design and build various data products (data models, dashboards, analysis) that enable the business to make data‑backed decisions.
• Help garner trust in data from the business by documenting analytics best practices, assisting with data discoverability, governance, and accuracy.
• Promote and drive a self‑service data culture by building easy‑to‑use analytics products and teaching the business users how to use them.
• Communicate progress, risks, and completion of projects to stakeholders.

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in BI or Analytics teams.
• Experience with cloud data warehouse technologies (Big Query is a plus).
• Strong logical and analytical thinking to solve problems, with an eye for detail‑oriented analysis and design.
• Hands‑on experience in building and managing data transformations (dbt experience is a plus).
• Ability to craft functional and user‑friendly data products (pipelines, data models, dashboards, etc.) for both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience with a data visualization tool (e.g., Looker, Tableau, etc.).
• SQL expertise, capable of complex, efficient, and logical SQL to accomplish data analysis goals.
• Functional knowledge of financial, sales, or other core business metrics.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to manage professional relationships across a variety of stakeholders, including executives.
• Ability to identify and prioritize multiple requirements and manage expectations accordingly.
• Collaborative spirit and willingness to traverse and contribute to the entire data stack, from front‑end to back‑end as needed.

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

For office/hybrid role only:
Preferred locations are San Francisco, CA;
Denver, CO;
New York, NY;
Culver City, CA. Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles, allowing 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.

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

The estimated salary range for this position is $ to $. 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.

Fastly offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance; family planning and 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) with company match;
Employee Stock Purchase Program; 11 paid local holidays; and 11 paid company wellness days (for 2026).

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