Senior Software Engineer - Monetization

July 15, 2024

The Fastly Monetization Engineering team is looking for an experienced, highly collaborative backend software engineer to evolve, design, and build systems & APIs that are part of Fastly’s Billing Platform. You’ll work across functions to design and create tools and systems that improve visibility and access to handle Fastly’s rapidly-growing family of products. You will also help expand our ability to gain value from the data pipelines powering our real-time logging, stats, and control plane applications.

• Design, develop, maintain, and test broad systems & tools as part of the Billing Platform
• Work directly with stakeholders and the Product team to find and evaluate opportunities to remove barriers for groups at Fastly to create and sell new product lines
• Design systems that allow internal teams from across the organization to get the data they need to operate with a focus on stability, performance & scalability.
• Develop design and architecture documents as a way of collaborating across groups in the design of new systems and APIs
• Lead and participate in the building, deployment, and maintenance of the software systems that collect, transport, and make data available to the Fastly organization
• Make your support available to your team when and where they need it — a time zone compatible with the continental US, where your team will be, is a must for this role
• Participate in an on-call rotation

• Experience programming in Go - most Senior Engineers at Fastly have at least 5 years of relevant coding experience 
• Experience with a relational database is required and nosql database is a plus
• Experience writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
• Experience with complex, large scale production systems that support the needs of a rapidly growing business
• Experience in projects related to low-latency data collection and analysis
• Experience collaborating across groups and functions, including Product teams, to understand business needs
• Experience delivering business-impacting software that meets the needs of these disparate groups 
• An understanding of the tradeoffs and challenges involved in building, operating and maintaining scalable and reliable data pipelines
• Experience mentoring, guiding, and coaching team members
• Ability to learn new skills and share what you’ve learned with the broader team

• Experience with billing or finance systems (e.g. recurring billing engines, ratings engines, financial forecasting tools) and their data requirements 
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, profiling, and solving issues in large-scale distributed systems
• Ruby or Java development and interest in learning new tech
• Relational and non-relational storage systems

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

This position is open to the following office location:

• San Francisco, CA

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. We do not support relocation.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The estimated salary range for this position is $167,790 to $209,740.

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.

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 2024, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.