Senior Software Engineer - Data Services (Remote)

$167,790 - $209,740/Yr

Fastly - Denver, CO

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Denver, CO

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Software Engineer - Data Services role at Fastly involves developing, supporting, and operating the software and systems that underpin Fastly's products. This position focuses on the intersection of security and data, requiring a senior engineer to lead project implementations, collaborate with teams, and adapt systems to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the software and systems that ingest, manage, and process the data that powers Fastly's products
• Partner with others in both the local team and across Fastly to deliver larger, cross-team projects on time
• Scale out large data systems to meet the growing needs of Fastly and its customers
• Use infrastructure as code and configuration management systems to run the software you develop
• Build in anticipation of the reliability, scalability, and performance needs of our systems
• Create and maintain dashboards and alerts to monitor our services
• Participate in the on-call & support rotation we share
• Help to establish the practice of using SLOs to guide decisions and priorities

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience developing software in a distributed environment
• Significant experience programming in Go and Kotlin
• Understanding of the challenges involved in operating and evolving scalable and reliable data storage systems of multiple types
• A thoughtful and empathetic approach to design and implementation
• Experience with message queues such as Google Pub/Sub, NSQ, Kafka, Kinesis
• Experience with container technology, Kubernetes/Docker/Helm, or similar
• Experience with metric collection and monitoring tools like Prometheus or services like DataDog
• Eagerness & aptitude to learn new languages & technologies

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Fastly's products and services
• Experience working with infrastructure as code like Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet
• Knowledge of one or more relational and non-relational storage systems (MongoDB, MySQL, BigQuery, BigTable, etc.)
• Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Family planning and mental health support
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life, Disability, and Accident insurance
• Non-accrual vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 401(k) with company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 10 paid local holidays and 11 paid company wellness days