Staff Engineer - API Services

Staff Software Engineer - API Services

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.

What You'll Do

• 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

What We're Looking For

• 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 GoLang
• Solid experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Track record of process 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