Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform
Fastly · Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA
About this role
**Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform** **About the Role** Join Fastly's Compute Platform team to build and scale our advanced serverless platform running on our global edge network. This role combines systems-level work, cross-team collaboration, and API design—with opportunities to contribute to open source projects like Wasmtime. **What You'll Do** • Coordinate seamlessly with team members and across technical/product teams • Contribute to code reviews and improve team processes • Lead projects from a technical perspective, driving progress and communicating status • Write platform-level Rust code handling back pressure, resource limits, and service interactions • Analyze and address performance and stability issues at scale • Own a large-scale production system with high performance and availability requirements **What We're Looking For** • 7+ years software development experience (3+ in high-reliability systems programming, ideally Rust) • Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code • Willingness to learn bleeding-edge technologies **Nice to Have** • Security concerns in multi-tenant systems • Multiprocess scheduling and memory management • Systems-level optimization • Technical writing experience • Open source contribution history **Work Details** • **Hours:** Core business hours (Western/Mountain time preference); on-call rotation required • **Location:** Hybrid/Remote in US (San Francisco, Denver, or Remote preferred) • **Salary:** $211,370–$253,644 (based on experience, skills, qualifications, location) • **Benefits:** Equity, discretionary bonus, comprehensive benefits package **Apply at:** www.fastly.com/about/careers
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