What You'll Do

Develop components or features that have a direct impact on how customers experience Fastly

Write code in a modern language

Support and deploy applications

Collaborate with your teammates through code and design reviews

Build for the continued reliability and scaling needs of the applications supported by your team

Participate in on-call rotation

Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team

What We're Looking For

Hands-on experience developing applications in any modern language

Understanding of best principles for system design

You are eager to learn new domains, grow your skills, and move up the stack

Strong written and verbal communication skills

A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic

You have experience working with teams distributed across different time zones

We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. It would be an added bonus if you have experience in ANY of these:

Building, analyzing, profiling, or debugging large-scale distributed systems

Previous experience working with Fastly

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours as well as evenings and weekends as needed to participate in the on-call support rotation.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

San Francisco, CA

New York, NY

Denver, CO

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary:

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2025, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.

Why Fastly?

We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly, participate in hands-on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.

We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.

We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.