Fastly

Technology

SeniorEngineer-DeveloperExperience

$175–250k ~AI est. New York, New York, United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Senior Engineer - Developer Experience at Fastly. Skills: Developer experience, Systems programming, WebAssembly. Maintain developer tool. Emulate production environment”

Industry & Context.

Technology

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5 years software development experience, 3 years systems programming experience, 2 years distributed systems experience, 2 years cloud systems experience, Comfortable writing asynchronous code, Comfortable writing concurrent code

Nice to Have

Rust experience, C/C++ experience, Functional programming knowledge, API design experience, WebAssembly ecosystem experience, Technical writing interest, Public speaking interest, Open source contribution history

What You'll Do.

Maintain developer tool

Emulate production environment

Influence emulated environment behavior

Develop roadmap for emulation tool

Align roadmap with production environment

Support customer usage

Contribute to Rust ecosystem

Contribute to WebAssembly ecosystem

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-team collaboration; Collaborate with product teams; Collaborate with engineering teams

Process & Methodology

Roadmap development

Full Job Description

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. We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us. Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience Posting Open Date: 06/08/2026 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 08/17/2026 *Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants. Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience This team is responsible for a wide variety of tools that are used by Fastly’s customers to create, manage, and operate their resources on the Fastly platform. One of these tools is a ‘local emulator’ for the Fastly Compute product, which allows developers building Compute services to test the behavior of their service code in a wide variety of scenarios. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join this team and become the primary maintainer of the tool, collaborating with other members of the team and a number of other teams within Fastly Engineering to ensure that the tool supports all of the functionality and testing capability that Fastly’s customers expect. This role will involve extensive cross-team collaboration, designing high-quality interfaces for developers who use the emulation tool, and significant involvement in a variety of open source projects which are incorporated in the tool (or used in its development and support). What You'll Do: Be responsible for a developer tool which provides critical capabilities for Fastly’s customers Ensure that the tool provides faithful emulation of the production env

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