Site Reliability Engineer - Database

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’ use our edge cloud platform to ensure concertgoers can buy tickets to the live events they love, travellers can book flights seamlessly and embark on their next great adventure, and sports fans can stream events in real-time, across devices. They include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Spotify, Alaska Airlines, Hulu, The New York Times, and Ticketmaster.

We’re building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us. 

This Site Reliability Engineer will support the data infrastructure that powers Fastly. In addition to optimizing queries, ensuring data consistency and availability, this position will work closely with application teams to design, plan, test, and implement solutions across the Fastly stack. You can be a critical part of supporting the data that makes the internet faster.

What You'll Do

  • Design, document, and evangelize data standards
  • Troubleshoot datastore issues from hardware to accessibility on the network 
  • Provision and manage datastores with configuration management
  • Build database schemas, tables, procedures and permissions
  • Develop database utilities and automated reporting
  • Ensure the reliability and availability of critical datastores and pipelines
  • Implement Data Governance and Compliance policy at scale

What We're Looking For

  • Expert with MySQL and other relational data management platforms
  • Experience with scalable data pipelines and event systems
  • Experience with key-value, Elastic Search, and other NoSQL datastores 
  • Experience working in distributed and highly-available environments
  • Ability to work with moderate supervision
  • Analytical thinker with strong attention to detail
  • Periodic travel for engineering meetups (<10%)
  • Willingness to experiment and improve systems through iteration

Why Fastly?

  • We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Our customers have a tremendous user base, and we support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their hearts with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
  • We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is part of our DNA.
  • 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, like generous parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
  • 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’re passionate about.