Staff Engineer - API Services

Overview

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 be programmable and to support agile software development.

Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Git Hub, Yelp, Paramount, and Jet Blue.

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

Posting Open Date: Feb. 11, 2026
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: March 11, 2026

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

Staff Software Engineer - API Services

The API Services team owns critical services to ensure the performance and reliability of Fastly’s Control Plane. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will drive the technical vision and architectural evolution of these high-throughput, globally distributed systems. This role involves leading cross-functional initiatives with numerous internal Fastly teams to support and scale critical components of our infrastructure.

• Lead the design and development for highly-available, scalable, and distributed systems to enable Fastly to meet the challenges of sustained growth and scale.
• Mentor engineers across the team in developing applications in Go and advocate for software development best practices and high-quality code standards.
• Drive significant process and architecture improvements by evolving manual tasks and complex legacy components into reliable, automatic, and highly efficient systems.
• Define and communicate the long-term technical roadmap for API Services and collaborate with engineering leaders and principal engineers to align cross-team dependencies and strategies.
• Anticipate, design, and implement major architectural changes to ensure the continued reliability and scaling needs of the Fastly Control Systems for years to come.
• Define and champion Platform Engineering best practices for the API Services team, improving the foundational infrastructure used by internal developers.
• Contribute to the core infrastructure and platform needs of the team by working with tools and frameworks like Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Chef.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.

• You have at least 7 years of related development experience, including a significant track record of building and scaling global-scale distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience developing applications in GoLang.
• Solid experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Experience with declarative configuration languages such as CUE or other tools for managing configuration compilation and coordination.
• Track record of processes improvements through automation.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, etc).
• Deep expertise and mastery of distributed systems and microservices architecture, including hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale production services.
• Proven ability to independently drive and deliver large, complex, and ambiguous projects that span multiple teams and require significant cross-organizational influence.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A great teammate: communicative, collaborative, empathetic.
• You have experience working with teams distributed across different time zones.

• Envoy
• API Gateways
• Varnish, VCL
• Service Mesh implementation/configuration

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

This position is open to Hybrid And Remote Work Locations. The preferred locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• New York, 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…