Staff Engineer, Traffic Management Systems

Fastly

London, United Kingdom
Base: £124,780 to £149,737; bonus/equity: may be e...
On-site
Designing and operating distributed systems
Scalable, fault tolerant, and easy to manage
Critical network services
Fastly's Traffic Management Systems Team owns and operates services for global CDN traffic balancing and its Managed DNS product

Job Summary

  • Fastly's Traffic Management Systems Team owns and operates services for global CDN traffic balancing and its Managed DNS product.
  • The team is building a world-class DNS product with an autonomous control system for real-time data-driven decisions.
  • This role requires technical leadership in designing, building, and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.

Matching Summary

Fastly's Traffic Management Systems Team owns and operates services for global CDN traffic balancing and its Managed DNS product.

Salary

Base: £124,780 to £149,737; Bonus/Equity: May be eligible for equity and discretionary bonus programs; Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package starting on first day of employment

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • designing and operating distributed systems
  • scalable, fault tolerant, and easy to manage
  • critical network services
  • high levels of availability and performance

Nice-to-have

  • protocol fluency and hands-on experience
  • experience with major cloud infrastructure providers
  • experience with infrastructure as code systems
  • familiarity with monitoring solutions

Key Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience designing and developing software components on Unix/Linux platforms
  • 5+ years of experience building and operating distributed networking/cloud systems at scale
  • Track record of writing resilient and maintainable Rust, C, C++ and/or Go code
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

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