Ruby Application 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.

A Fastly Application Engineer is responsible for both improving upon and maintaining the various components that make up Fastly's customer-facing Configuration API. The Configuration API is one of Fastly's features that sets us apart from our competition. We're looking for candidates excited about the prospect of building highly available, customer-facing, globally distributed control systems.

* Long-term maintenance of existing applications * Adding new features to existing applications * Convert larger existing applications to smaller services * Handling customer support requests relating to the API * Integrating with 3rd party services (New Relic, Salesforce, Heroku, etc) * Work with new features from whiteboard through to production

* Considerable professional experience delivering software written in Ruby * Experience with Rack-based web frameworks (Rails, Sinatra, etc) * Experience with Ruby testing frameworks (Minitest, RSpec, etc) * Experience with SQL datastores (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc) * Working knowledge of Git (and Github) * Very comfortable navigating Unix/Linux systems via terminal * Understand the HTTP request/response cycle * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * Strong mentoring skills to help other engineers grow * Experience with distributed systems * Experience with Varnish