Staff Software Engineer, Customer Usage Data Platform (Remote)
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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.
We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
Posting Open Date: Sept. 4, 2024
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Sept. 30, 2024
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Staff Software Engineer - Customer Usage Data Platform
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. Fastly's customers include many of the world's most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, Reddit and GitHub.
TheCustomer Usage Data Platform team maintains a global, real time pipeline to measure Fastly customer usage across the Internet. This pipeline is used for business and operational decisions and directly supports company revenue. The team has experienced an order of magnitude growth in data volume over the past three years. We maintain multi-region storage and satisfy low latency requirements for Fastly's real-time observability API and low loss message delivery for historical observability, revenue systems, and operational visibility.
As a Staff Software Engineer you will lead the design and development for highly-available, scalable, distributed systems to enable Fastly to meet the challenges of sustained growth.
What You'll Do:
What We're Looking For:
We'll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:
Work Hours:
This position will require you to be available during core North American business hours and occasional nights and weekends for on call rotation.
Work Locations & Travel Requirements:
This position is a remote role and open to candidates residing in the United States.
This position may require occasional travel as required by your role or requested by your manager. Travel is typically to an office location for events like tech summits, team summits, and planning activities.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary:
The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720 to $244,640.
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.
Benefits:
We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2024, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.
Why Fastly?
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 or .
Fastly collects and processes personal data submitted by job applicants in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please see our privacy notice for job applicants.
We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
Posting Open Date: Sept. 4, 2024
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Sept. 30, 2024
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Staff Software Engineer - Customer Usage Data Platform
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. Fastly's customers include many of the world's most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, Reddit and GitHub.
TheCustomer Usage Data Platform team maintains a global, real time pipeline to measure Fastly customer usage across the Internet. This pipeline is used for business and operational decisions and directly supports company revenue. The team has experienced an order of magnitude growth in data volume over the past three years. We maintain multi-region storage and satisfy low latency requirements for Fastly's real-time observability API and low loss message delivery for historical observability, revenue systems, and operational visibility.
As a Staff Software Engineer you will lead the design and development for highly-available, scalable, distributed systems to enable Fastly to meet the challenges of sustained growth.
What You'll Do:
- Take ownership of features from planning to deployment, facilitating review and discussion with peers and partners, and ensuring features as implemented meet product requirements
- Work collaboratively with customer support, solutions, product, and sales teams to produce data and APIs that unlock additional revenues
- Clearly communicate upward and outward to articulate trade-offs, set and adjust expectations with your manager and partners
- Collaborate with your teammates through design discussions, code and design reviews, advocate for software development best practices, and mentor junior teammates
- Join our on-call rotation to ensure the data from our global customers is available within agreed upon SLAs
What We're Looking For:
- Hands-on experience developing highly available, reliable REST APIs - Most Staff level engineers at Fastly have at least 7 years of related experience
- Professional experience with Go (golang), Java, and/or C++
- Strong understanding of service-oriented architectures, and design patterns
- Experience building global-scale distributed systems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- A great teammate with strong collaboration skills who is humble and empathetic
- Experience working with teams distributed across different time zones
- Ability to learn new skills quickly and share what you have learned with the broader team
We'll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:
- Experience building and scaling real time and near real time APIs in Go
- Experience building backend features utilizing Clickhouse, Open Telemetry and Prometheus
- Experience building and scaling relational databases
- Experience implementing stream processing pipelines
- Experience building analytical tools & machine learning platforms
Work Hours:
This position will require you to be available during core North American business hours and occasional nights and weekends for on call rotation.
Work Locations & Travel Requirements:
This position is a remote role and open to candidates residing in the United States.
This position may require occasional travel as required by your role or requested by your manager. Travel is typically to an office location for events like tech summits, team summits, and planning activities.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary:
The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720 to $244,640.
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.
Benefits:
We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2024, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.
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 or .
Fastly collects and processes personal data submitted by job applicants in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please see our privacy notice for job applicants.
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