Is the Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform role remote?

It's hybrid — Fastly expects some on-site time in Denver, CO, United States.

What's the salary range?

Fastly lists $211,370–$253,644 for this role.

How much experience is required?

At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform role.

Where is the role based?

Fastly is hiring for this position in Denver, CO, United States.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Rust.

What seniority level is this role?

Fastly targets staff-level candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform role at Fastly.

Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform at Fastly

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Staff Software Engineer focuses on enhancing Fastly's Compute platform by developing and optimizing serverless infrastructure that operates at the edge of the Internet. Key skills include proficiency in Rust and experience with high-reliability systems, particularly in asynchronous and concurrent programming. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in systems programming and a willingness to engage in cross-team collaboration. The team emphasizes open-source contributions, making it a fitting environment for those passionate about community-driven technology.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 7, 2026. Last confirmed on Fastly's careers page October 7, 2026.
Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
Starts above 35% of 26 comparable staff backend roles in United States that list Rust we track (median $222,568 across 12 companies). See Rust salary trends
Rust appears in 11% of 309 comparable staff backend roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform role remote?: It's hybrid — Fastly expects some on-site time in Denver, CO, United States.
What's the salary range?: Fastly lists $211,370–$253,644 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform role.
Where is the role based?: Fastly is hiring for this position in Denver, CO, United States.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Rust.
What seniority level is this role?: Fastly targets staff-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform role at Fastly.

From the original posting

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.

Posting Open Date: 10/01/2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 12/31/2026

Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform

This team builds the platform for Fastly’s Compute – an advanced serverless platform built on open standards which runs on our global edge network. It’s designed to address the requirements of modern application development by empowering customers to run code in a highly secure execution environment with microsecond cold start times, at scale, on the edge.

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.

What You'll Do:

Coordinate and communicate seamlessly with the team members and across other technical and product teams
Contribute to code reviews, improving the codebase and other team processes
Manage projects from a technical lead role driving project progress and communicating project status to stakeholders
Write platform-level code in Rust that handles host concerns like back pressure, resource limits, and interactions with other services
Analyze and address performance and stability issues to meet high scale requirements
Be responsible for a large scale production system with extremely high performance and availability requirements

What We'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
Experience with and interest in technical writing
History of open source contribution

Work Hours

This position will require you to be available during core business hours, with a strong preference for Western and Mountain time zones. You will be required to be part of the on call rotation for the team.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to Hybrid and Remote Work Locations.

The preferred locations for this position are:

San Francisco, United States
Denver, United States
Remote, United States

We are also willing to consider remote candidates in the United States.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $211,370- $253,644.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.

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 others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

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Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform

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