Hybrid Principal Software Engineer – Core Systems

at Fastly

• Job title: Principal Software Engineer – Core Systems
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $246,550 - $295,860 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Open Source, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Principal Software Engineer designing scalable systems for Fastly's edge cloud platform. Leading technical strategy and collaborating across engineering teams to enhance performance and security.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead delivery of systems that drive our vision for scalability, security, performance and reliability in all the applications.
• Provide and advocate for solutions to strategic and sophisticated technical problems, while influencing the organization with new ideas.
• Represent the Team in technical discussions across the organization.
• Help identify areas of opportunity in existing products and design solutions to support those efforts.
• Contribute and advocate for iterative improvements to both code and culture.
• Think strategically about the technical direction of the team’s software, in alignment to Fastly’s long term goals.
• Anticipate where and when systems will need to be adapted to meet our growth needs.
• Craft and articulate technical strategy via design documents.
• Sequence the technical building blocks required to enable durable innovation.
• Guide, share knowledge, and lead teams implementing cross functional systems.
• Enable outcome driven, collaborative discussions utilizing the deep technical knowledge of the teams you work with.
• Mentor and provide regular feedback to engineers.
• Lead by example. Be an active implementer and team member.
• Partner with senior engineering leaders to build and execute in both internal and open source contexts.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Significant domain-relevant software engineering experience (i.e., backend and distributed systems focus) with expertise in modern programming languages and tooling (the team works mostly in Golang)
• Track record of choosing pragmatic over perfect solutions to ship features on-time and unblock cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience building efficient software at scale.
• Proven experience building internet facing systems that are safely operated
• A history of hands-on technical leadership building scalable and reliable software.
• Thoughtful, customer-driven approach to design and implementation.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; capable of building positive relationships with peers and leadership.
• Experience mentoring, guiding, and coaching team members and a passion for learning and sharing what you’ve learned with others.

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Family planning
• mental health support
• Employee Assistance Program
• Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
• Flexible Vacation policy
• up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 401(k) (including company match)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 11 paid local holidays
• 12 paid company wellness days