Be responsible for a developer tool which provides critical capabilities for Fastly's customers
Ensure that the tool provides faithful emulation of the production environment while also offering controls to influence the behavior of the emulated environment
Work closely with Fastly's product and engineering management teams to develop a roadmap for the emulation tool and ensure that the roadmap stays aligned with the production environment
Work directly with customers who use the tool to support their usage and learn what additional functionality would be beneficial for them
Contribute to the Rust and WebAssembly open source ecosystems
Requirements
You have at least 5 years of software development experience, with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust, alternately in C/C++, and some knowledge of functional programming
You have a minimum of 2 years of experience with distributed or cloud systems
Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code
We'll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:
Experience with Rust or other systems languages
Experience with API design
Experience with WebAssembly and its ecosystem
Experience with and interest in technical writing
Experience with and interest in public speaking
History of open source contribution
Work Hours:
This position will require you to be available during core business hours, with a strong preference for US Eastern and Central time zones.
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:
This position is open to the following preferred office locations:
New York City
Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.
Salary:
The estimated salary range for this position is $181,220 to $217,464.
Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly's equity and discretionary bonus programs.
Benefits
We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?Why Fastly?We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives . Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with oHealth insuranceDental insuranceVision insurance401(k)Paid time offFlexible scheduleEquity / stock optionsPerformance bonus
Additional Information
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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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).
Fastly · New York City, NY