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Fastly | Software Engineers (Senior, Staff, Principal)
- Location: US, UK, EU, APAC (Onsite preferred, remote candidates with a strong fit are welcome)
- Type: Full-time
- Source: Hacker News
About Fastly
When you look at the headers of major websites, you’ll see us. If it has to be performant, secure, scaled worldwide, and always-on, it uses Fastly. We are a global edge cloud platform for performance and security, emphasizing open standards, sustainable engineering, and resilience-by-design.
Rather than building walled gardens, we co-founded the Bytecode Alliance, heavily upstream our work to open standards, actively author IETF drafts, and power the global infrastructure for open-source Python, Rust, Ruby, OpenStreetMap, and much more.
The Role
We are hiring across several domains, including:
- Compute
- Security
- Platform engineering
- Network and edge protocols
- Release engineering
- Network architecture
- Client services engineering
The Tech Stack
- Languages: Rust, C/C++, Go, Javascript, Typescript
- Core Technologies: WebAssembly (Wasm/WASI), Wasmtime, Cranelift, eBPF/XDP
- Protocols & Networking: QUIC, HTTP, TLS, TCP, Varnish/VCL, Linux kernel internals
- Systems: Distributed systems, professional services