Job Description

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 Fastly to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand. Founded in 2011, Fastly powers online destinations including Airbnb, GitHub, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times and Ticketmaster.

The worldwide cloud services market is projected to grow rapidly to $236 billion in 2020, according to Forrester, Inc. As more and more businesses move operations to the cloud, Fastly is well positioned to continue increasing CDN, cloud networking and cloud security market share with edge cloud services that reach beyond content delivery.

We’re building a better Internet. Come join us.

Distributed Systems - TLS / API Engineer

We’re looking for talented software engineers with experience in building resilient and distributed systems to join our team. This role is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the platform to deliver our core CDN configurations as well as our future Edge Cloud products. We have local offices in San Francisco, Portland and other locations. Remote workers are also encouraged to apply. Time zones with some overlap to North American time zones are preferred.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the systems for managing DNS and TLS technology to minimize latency for delivering Fastly's services.
• Implement systems to allow Fastly's customers to control their own TLS and DNS configurations for how their requester traffic reaches Fastly.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of Fastly's latency-informed, topologically-aware DNS system.
• Support internal operational, analytical and customer-facing teams that depend on the DNS and TLS tooling.
• Build internet-scale, fault tolerant, well-instrumented services that enable Fastly's authoritative DNS services and TLS termination capabilities.

What We're Looking For

We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. You’ll be a good candidate if you have experience and/or interest in SOME of these:

• Maintaining and developing large-scale and/or global production systems
• Experience building APIs to handle complex or sensitive data with Go (or other languages) in an interdependent and heterogeneous environment.
• Experience with network data and networking data structures.
• Operational networking experience (e.g. DNS, routing protocols, packet diagnosis and latency analysis)
• Writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, profiling, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with online testing, integration testing, database and system profiling.
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
• Understanding of authoritative DNS services, especially in an anycast environment.
• Experience working with geographically dispersed team: Previous remote work preferred.

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customershave a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. 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. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
• 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 like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
• 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.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply!

Job Description

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Principal Software Engineer - Edge Data

You will be one of the first engineers working on a brand-new system that Fastly has been prototyping and is now beginning to operationalize. The system applies cutting-edge distributed systems theory — notably, CRDTs — to Fastly's global network to provide an infrastructure for state at the edge.

What You'll Do

• Learn the distsys theory and Go implementation of the project to proficiency, becoming a technical "co-founder" and owner
• Optimize system performance to meet Fastly's Internet-scale requirements, via testing, profiling, refactoring, and redesigning
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams to define and implement primitives that will power a huge number of future Fastly products
• Help to design, develop, and participate in a process for onboarding new engineers to the project, with a focus on mentorship and growth
• Work in a small team that's highly motivated to find new, innovative ways to give our customers new capabilities

What We're Looking For

• Clear, effective, and empathetic communication skills, both written and verbal, especially when discussing complex technical topics
• Intermediate+ proficiency with Go (Golang), ideally having built and operated one or more large-scale projects
• Advanced distributed systems theory experience, especially eventual consistency, and a strong interest in learning more
• A "systems thinker" who always keeps the big picture in mind, even as they work on the smallest details
• Effective at asynchronous remote work, with teammates across the world

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. 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. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.

• 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 like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).

• 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.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit, please apply!

Job Description

We Are…

Shogun, and we're on a mission to help people create the best eCommerce experiences in the world.

We were in the Winter 2018 batch of Y-Combinator, we just raised a Series A investment, we have over 10,000 active paying clients, and we're preparing to launch a new product in 2020 (you can read more in Tech Crunch).

Our teams are fully distributed and global (check out our team page)! We have no office, so we are looking for team members that are comfortable with and motivated by the opportunity to work remotely.

You Are...

A Software Engineer that specializes in Go and brings in a deep understanding of design patterns and data structures.

In This Role You Will...

• Build robust and scalable software using Go
• Participate in architectural design discussions and planning sessions
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity
• Help define and improve internal coding standards
• Collaborate with Product Manager and other Engineering stakeholders

Requirements

• Strong proficiency and working experience (3+ years) in Go
• Experienced in working on a medium-to-large monolithic codebase. You have done more than a simple microservice
• Comfortable working in highly agile, iterative software development process
• Strong background in PostgreSQL
• Working experience in GraphQL
• Good hands-on knowledge of CI/CD tools
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Self-managing, both in motivation and learning
• Work in line with our values

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with Fastly or VCL
• Knowledge in Ruby, React, PWA
• Experience with task queueing systems (preferably Faktory)
• Experience in Google Cloud Platform
• Experience working with a remote and asynchronous team

We Offer

• A competitive salary
• Benefits (vary by location)
• An environment that cares highly about the quality of the code and good practices. We’ve suffered enough without them!
• A fully remote work environment - our team is global and has been remote from the very start!
• Occasionally, we hire on a full time contractor basis to begin with. Team members enjoy the same opportunities for great compensation, full time positions, and consideration, regardless of location.

Our Values

• Work in the open: Operate with high integrity and choose what's right over what's easy. Be transparent as a company and with each other.
• People are People: Treat yourself, colleagues, and customers with dignity, empathy, and respect. Start from a presumption of positive intent.
• Win and grow together: Strive to be the best, individually and as a team. Support and encourage each other. Seek opportunities for growth.

Shogun supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity/expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, or any other protected class

Application form questions

1. Github/Gitlab profile URL
2. Your Shopify development store URL (Try to use Shogun to get a feel for the product)
3. Source code of something you built and that proud of. It can be a repo, a gist, or a zip file (Please don't paste code here)
4. What is the GO best practice or paradigm that you disagree with? Why?
5. Where did you hear about us?
6. In what country would you be working from?