Distributed Systems Engineer

Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust the Fastly edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.

Our Distributed Systems team builds, scales and maintains services that are the core of Fastly’s business and give us a key advantage over our competitors. You will build systems that will be able to handle exponential growth in our existing products while laying groundwork for exciting new applications. You will have the opportunity to work on some of the world’s most highly-scaled distributed systems that handle around 2 million request per second.

• Experience with compiled languages like Go or C/C++
• Projects related to real-time event logging, stats collection and analysis
• System profiling and performance optimization
• Improving the reliability and efficiency of fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Working within cross-functional engineering teams

• Maintaining and developing large-scale, production systems
• Linux/UNIX systems, both high and low level
• Writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, profiling, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)