Principal Engineer - Release Engineering

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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Principal Release Engineer 

We are looking for a Principal Release Engineer to join Fastly’s Release Engineering team. The Release Engineer is responsible for the set-up, maintenance and ongoing development of continuous build / integration and deployment infrastructure. In this role you will create and maintain fully automated CI build processes for multiple environments, including our global edge cache fleet, internal applications, and applications hosted in AWS and GCP. The ideal candidate will care deeply about providing other engineers with a seamless release experience, and have a deep understanding of what engineers care about, how they ship code, and what world-class delivery infrastructure looks like.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate release tooling across building, packaging, signing, artifact management, and deploying software.
• Drive initiatives that make our engineers happier and more productive by reducing lead time for changes.
• Collaborate with development and SRE teams to develop policies, standards, guidelines, governance and related guidance for CI/D operations.
• Support developers from with build automation, merge resolution, CI, test automation, deployment based on tools usage and policies, standards.
• Troubleshoot issues along the CI/D pipeline.
• Participate in on-call support rotation

What we’re looking for

• 10+ years of experience  

• Ability to excel within an "Agile" environment (i.e. user stories, sprints, iterative development, continuous integration, continuous delivery, shared ownership, test-driven development, etc.) .

• Deep expertise in at least one of the following languages: Ruby, Python, Go.

• Expertise with automation tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Dagger.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks such as Chef, Terraform, Ansible, etc

• Varnish, Nginx or other cache and proxy servers

• Knowledge of source code control management systems and configuration management (i.e. Git, GitHub, etc) and code branching/merging strategies

• Experience with Linux and containerization, particularly with Docker & orchestration platforms like Kubernetes

• Experience with a Cloud-based environment, particularly AWS and/or GCP. Both would be ideal!

• Good understanding of quality control and test automation in agile-based continuous integration environments

• Experience with Omnibus and/or Debian packaging

• Experience with artifact repositories such as Artifactory or Sonatype Nexus

• Some experience with SQL and relational databases administration (i.e. Oracle, MySQL)

• Open source license tracking, auditing and reporting

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as needed for on call support

 

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? 

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.

• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.

• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

All job applications must be submitted through our official careers site at www.fastly.com/about/careers. We will never request sensitive information, such as your Social Security number, bank account or credit card information during the application process. All official communication will come from an @fastly.com or @recruiting.fastly.com email address.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901. 

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