# Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform at Fastly

- Company: Fastly
- What the company does: Backed by ICONIQ and Amplify.
- Company website: https://www.fastly.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $211K to $254K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://www.fastly.com/about/jobs/apply?gh_jid=8249951&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fastly-staff-software-engineer-compute-platform/

## About the role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join this multifaceted team and help scale our hosting infrastructure. In addition to nuts-and-bolts networking and systems-level work, this role will involve cross-team collaboration, and designing high quality APIs for our customers to use services developed by other teams. There is also opportunity to contribute to open source projects (like Wasmtime ) that are key parts of the Compute story. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You have at least 7 years of software development experience, with at least 3 of those in high-reliability systems programming, ideally in Rust
- Comfortable writing asynchronous, concurrent code
- A willingness to dive into and learn bleeding-edge and developing technologies
- Understanding of security concerns in multi-tenant systems
- Experience with multiprocess scheduling and memory management
- Experience with systems-level optimization

Tags: Compute Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fastly-staff-software-engineer-compute-platform/