Staff Engineer - Compute Platform
About this role
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 GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.
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Posting Open Date: 24 March, 2026
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 20 April, 2026
Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform
This team builds the platform for Fastly’s Compute – 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.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join this multifaceted team and help scale our hosting infrastructure. In addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work, this role will involve cross-team collaboration, and designing high quality APIs for our customers to use services developed by other teams. There is also opportunity to contribute to open source projects (like Wasmtime) that are key parts of the Compute story.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Write platform-level code in Rust that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
- Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
- Be responsible for a large scale production system with extremely high performance and availability requirements
Requirements
- You have at least 7 years of software development experience, with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust.
- Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code
- 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:
- Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems
- Experience with multiprocess scheduling and memory management
- Experience with systems-level optimization
- Experience with and interest in technical writing
- History of open source contribution
- Work Hours
- This position will require you to be available during core business hours and requires occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support on-call coverage.
- Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:
- The preferred office locations for this position are:
- London, United Kingdom
- 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 Kingdom.
- 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 may require travel, including to the United States, as required by your role or requested by your manager.