Staff Engineer - API Services
Fastly · Denver, CO | San Francisco, CA · Core Systems Engineering
About this role
Fastly is hiring a staff-level Backend Engineer in the software engineering function based in Denver, CO | San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with Go, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes. Compensation is listed at $211,370–$253,644 per year.
- Role
- Backend Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Denver, CO | San Francisco, CA
- Department
- Core Systems Engineering
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Job description
from Fastly careersFastly 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: May 19, 2026 (reposted)
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: June 1, 2026
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Staff Software Engineer - API Services
The API Services team owns critical services to ensure the performance and reliability of Fastly’s Control Plane. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will drive the technical vision and architectural evolution of these high-throughput, globally distributed systems. This role involves leading cross-functional initiatives with numerous internal Fastly teams to support and scale critical components of our infrastructure.
What You'll Do
- Lead the design and development for highly-available, scalable, and distributed systems to enable Fastly to meet the challenges of sustained growth and scale.