Staff Engineer - WebAssembly

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.

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Posting Open Date: 12/6/2024

Anticipated Posting Close Date: 1/31/2025

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Staff Software Engineer - WebAssembly (Remote)

The WebAssembly team is focused on the technology that powers Fastly's Compute platform - 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.

What You'll Do:

• 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
• While we work in multiple programming languages, a large portion of our tooling is in Rust
• Your day to day area of focus will vary, depending on project need and skills. The general areas you may work on are
  
  • The Wasm time runtime environment
  • Compilers (such as TinyGo or Cranelift)
  • Working with open source communities, such as the Bytecode Alliance or the W3C WebAssembly Working Group to design and implement new standards for WebAssembly
  • Language runtimes for Wasm (such as StarlingMonkey, or the Python runtime)

What We're Looking For:

• You have a minimum of 7 years of Software Engineering experience with at least 3 years of experience with systems-level programming, such as programming languages, compilers, runtimes, or operating systems
• A willingness to dive into and learn bleeding-edge and developing technologies

We'll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these: (Optional)

• Research experience
• Technical leadership experience in open source communities
• Experience with Rust and Go
• Experience with C or C++

Work Hours:

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

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to both hybrid and remote work locations.

The preferred hybrid locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• New York City, 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.

We are also willing to consider remote candidates in the United States.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

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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.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720.00 to 244,645.00.

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 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. 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.

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! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

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