Fastly
Technology
SeniorEngineer-Monetization
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“Senior Engineer - Monetization at Fastly. Skills: Backend services, APIs, System design, Greenfield development. Design backend services. Build backend services”
Industry & Context.
Ambiguous problems; Assess feasibility; Identify constraints; Formulate plans
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5 years of relevant experience, Proficiency in at least one backend language, Experience designing and implementing new services from scratch, Experience with a relational database, Experience writing performant code, Track record of taking ownership of projects, Experience authoring technical proposals, Experience working across teams, Comfort operating in ambiguity, Ability to learn new skills
Nice to Have
Experience with Go, Experience with React, Experience with AI/LLM technologies, Experience with recommendation systems, Experience with data science, Experience with data modeling, Interest in Rust, Experience with event-driven architectures, Experience with message buses, Experience with distributed systems at scale, Experience with NoSQL database
What You'll Do.
Design backend services
Build backend services
Contribute to frontend experiences
Turn problems into technical plans
Author design documents
Author architectural documents
Collaborate with platform teams
Collaborate with product managers
Collaborate with stakeholders
Deliver impactful solutions
Participate in pairing
Provide technical leadership
Participate in on-call rotation
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Product teams; Platform teams; Internal stakeholders; Cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Technical proposals; Design documents
Process & Methodology
Technical plans, Project ownership
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 Engineer - Monetization Posting Open Date: 06/02/26 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 08/03/26 *Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants. The Fastly Growth Engineering team is looking for an experienced, highly collaborative full-stack software engineer to evolve, design, build, and own systems & APIs that drive customer growth across Fastly’s product portfolio. Our team owns systems that help Fastly customers discover and adopt the right products for their use cases.. You will design and build new services from the ground up, collaborate closely with product and platform teams, and take projects from ambiguous problem statements through to production. What You'll Do: Design, build, and own new backend services and APIs end-to-end, from technical proposal through implementation, testing, and production rollout. Contribute to frontend experiences that surface the team’s services to customers Take ambiguous or broadly-scoped problems and turn them into well-defined technical plans that the team can execute on. Author design and architectural documents and use them to drive alignment across engineering and product teams Collaborate with internal platform teams, product managers, and stakeholders across the organization the understand needs and deliver impactful solutions Consider stability, performance, and scalability in your
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