Staff Software Engineer (Compute Platform)

• This team builds the platform for Fastly’s Compute – an advanced serverless platform built on open standards which runs on our global edge network
• It’s designed to address the requirements of modern application development by empowering customers to run code in a highly secure execution environment with microsecond cold start times, at scale, on the edge
• We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join this multifaceted team and help scale our hosting infrastructure
• In addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work, this role will involve cross-team collaboration, and designing high quality APIs for our customers to use services developed by other teams
• There is also opportunity to contribute to open source projects (like Wasmtime) that are key parts of the Compute story
• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly with the team members and across other technical and product teams
• Contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
• Manage projects from a technical lead role driving project progress and communicating project status to stakeholders
• Write platform-level code in Rust that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
• Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
• Be responsible for a large scale production system with extremely high performance and availability requirements

Benefits

• Parental support and beyond: We support our families by offering generous time off for parental leave. And beyond that, we work hard to build a culture that allows for all employees to have the life outside work that they desire year round.
• Health and wellness:
  Your well-being matters here. Our health plans offer a variety of options, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, mental health resources, and more.
• Invest in your future:
  We offer 401(k)/retirement plans, employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP), and reimbursements for learning and development programs — so we can support your ongoing growth and success.
• Keep learning and growing: Helping people go further means nurturing their talent. Through annual reimbursements for employee learning activities, regular hangouts and advice from our Senior Staff, talks from industry leaders, and cultural events — we offer tons of opportunities for people to learn. And we’re always looking to grow as a company, too: we collect employee engagement and experience data annually and leverage our Employee Experience Champion Network to understand employee feedback, so we can keep improving.

• You have at least 7 years of software development experience, with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust
• A willingness to dive into and learn bleeding-edge and developing technologies
• Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code
• Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems
• Experience with multiprocess scheduling and memory management
• Experience with and interest in technical writing
• Experience with systems-level optimization
• History of open source contribution

• Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 12/31/2026