Software Development Engineer

The API Services team owns critical services to ensure the performance and reliability of Fastly’s Control Plane. As a Software Development Engineer, you will implement features and improvements to these high-throughput, globally distributed systems, working closely with more senior engineers and other internal Fastly teams to support critical components of our infrastructure.

What You’ll Do

• Implement projects and features that require interaction with neighboring systems, working across groups to solve issues and implement changes
• Contribute to and facilitate team discussions, respecting and incorporating differing opinions
• Provide useful design and code review feedback to your teammates
• Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team by working with tools and frameworks like Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Chef
• Help evolve manual tasks into more reliable, automated systems
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teammates
• Help onboard and support new team members
• Take the lead in solving problems of diverse scope, with guidance from senior teammates as needed
• Participate in an on-call rotation, This position will require you to be available during core business hours (Mountain/Pacific Time) and occasional nights and weekends as required for on-call support.

• You have 1-3 years of related development experience
• Working knowledge of GoLang, with a desire to build deeper hands-on expertise
• Exposure to cloud providers (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Good understanding of core engineering concepts within your functional area
• Able to execute on features that require interaction with neighboring applications or services
• Growing understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Comfortable taking on well-scoped projects with support from senior teammates
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic
• Eager to learn new domains, grow your skills, and take on more scope over time
• Open to working with teams distributed across different time zones

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Envoy
• API Gateways
• Varnish, VCL

The estimated salary range for this position is $155,370 to $186,444., 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 2026, we offer 12 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.

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 GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue., 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 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.