Senior Engineer - Developer Experience

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Developer Experience team, responsible for maintaining a developer tool that enables customers to create, manage, and operate their resources on the Fastly platform.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for a developer tool which provides critical capabilities for Fastly’s customers
• Ensure that the tool provides faithful emulation of the production environment while also offering controls to influence the behavior of the emulated environment
• Work closely with Fastly’s product and engineering management teams to develop a roadmap for the emulation tool and ensure that the roadmap stays aligned with the production environment
• Work directly with customers who use the tool to support their usage and learn what additional functionality would be beneficial for them
• Contribute to the Rust and WebAssembly open source ecosystems

Requirements:

• You have at least 5 years of software development experience, with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust, alternately in C/C++, and some knowledge of functional programming
• You have a minimum of 2 years of experience with distributed or cloud systems
• Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code
• Experience with Rust or other systems languages
• Experience with API design
• Experience with WebAssembly and its ecosystem
• Experience with and interest in technical writing
• Experience with and interest in public speaking
• History of open source contribution