Staff Engineer - Edge Protocols

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer passionate about applying their talents to make the Internet fast and secure.

- Enhance, maintain and optimize network software that implements protocols including TLS, HTTP, QUIC, etc.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to shape a clear technical roadmap - prioritizing key initiatives and proactively identifying and mitigating risks - to deploy, support, troubleshoot, and deliver features to customers

- Contribute to open source projects such as h2o and picotls

- Mentor and support the professional growth of engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, innovation, and collaboration within the team

- Proven ability to design & implement reliable, scalable, low latency systems. Most Staff Engineers at Fastly have at least 7 years of domain relevant engineering experience.

- A collaborative mindset with experience working across cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and innovation

- Significant production experience with coding in C, C++, and/or Rust.

- Proven ability to mentor and support the growth of engineers, both within a specific area of expertise and more broadly

- Hands-on experience in building distributed infrastructure and maintaining it over time

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear and comprehensive documentation

- Web/Internet protocols such as HTTP, TLS, DNS, TCP/IP, UDP, QUIC

- Understanding of how customers will interact with features you develop

- Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team and highly available environments

This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasionally nights and weekends as required for on call support.

There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US and Canada.

The estimated salary range for this position in the US is $211,370 to 253,644.