Staff Engineer; API Services

Requirements

• You have at least 7 years of related development experience, including a significant track record of building and scaling global-scale distributed systems
• Hands‑on experience developing applications in Go Lang
• Solid experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Experience with declarative configuration languages such as CUE or other tools for managing configuration compilation and coordination
• Track record of processes improvements through automation
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, etc)
• Deep expertise and mastery of distributed systems and microservices architecture, including hands‑on experience designing and operating large‑scale production services
• Proven ability to independently drive and deliver large, complex, and ambiguous projects that span multiple teams and require significant cross‑organizational influence
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic
• You have experience working with teams distributed across different time zones
• (Desirable) Envoy
• (Desirable) API Gateways
• (Desirable) Varnish, VCL
• (Desirable) Service Mesh implementation/configuration

• The API Services team owns critical services to ensure the performance and reliability of Fastly’s Control Plane. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will drive the technical vision and architectural evolution of these high-throughput, globally distributed systems. This role involves leading cross-functional initiatives with numerous internal Fastly teams to support and scale critical components of our infrastructure
• Lead the design and development for highly‑available, scalable, and distributed systems to enable Fastly to meet the challenges of sustained growth and scale
• Mentor engineers across the team in developing applications in Go and advocate for software development best practices and high‑quality code standards
• Drive significant process and architecture improvements by evolving manual tasks and complex legacy components into reliable, automatic, and highly efficient systems
• Define and communicate the long‑term technical roadmap for API Services and collaborate with engineering leaders and principal engineers to align cross‑team dependencies and strategies
• Anticipate, design, and implement major architectural changes to ensure the continued reliability and scaling needs of the Fastly Control Systems for years to come
• Define and champion Platform Engineering best practices for the API Services team, improving the foundational infrastructure used by internal developers
• Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team by working with tools and frameworks like Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Chef
• Participate in an on‑call rotation
• This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as required for on call support