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# Software Development Engineer

- **Company:** Fastly, Inc.
- **Location:** Denver, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $155,370.0 - $186,444.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Distributed Systems, Network Control, Software Engineering, Web Services, Containerization, Kubernetes, Api Gateway, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-development-engineer-fastly-9636145

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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.


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