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Fastly is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of their network telemetry and traffic engineering systems to process data efficiently and cost-effectively, and use the results to make real-time network configuration decisions for load balancing, traffic engineering and failover purposes.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience building high-reliability distributed systems. Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have more than 7 years of related experience.
• Solid understanding of the Go programming language
• Consistent track record of designing and implementing large-scale and mission-critical distributed software systems
• Understanding of the challenges involved in building, operating, and maintaining scalable and reliable data processing systems
• Experience mentoring, guiding, and coaching team members
• Ability to learn new skills and share what you’ve learned with the broader team
• Real-world experience in the protocols and practices that make up the fabric of the global internet, including IP, BGP, Anycast, and DNS

Responsibilities

• Lead full lifecycle projects from design and development through roll out and maintenance to build systems that make automated network configuration decisions for load balancing, traffic engineering and failover purposes,
• Design and build systems to collect, normalize, enrich, transport, and process data from heterogeneous sources across a rapidly scaling network
• Study and apply concepts from control theory, optimization and statistics to tackle traffic engineering problems
• Design and build pipelines for generating, testing and deploying changes to distributed systems that control Fastly's edge network
• Design and build software systems to run on network equipment for controlling their dataplane configuration
• Technical leadership of full lifecycle projects, driving project progress and collaborating with project stakeholders - Coordinate and communicate with the team members and across other technical and cross functional teams
• Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise and contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes

Other

• Mentor and support other engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, innovation, and collaboration within the team
• Participate in on-call rotation as needed
• Experience working with geographically dispersed teams: previous remote work preferred
• This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support the on-call rotation.
• A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.