Senior Data Engineer

About the role

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

Posting Open Date

July 13th, 2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date

September 30th, 2026

Job Title

Senior Data Engineer

What You'll Do

• You’ll collaborate and partner with executives, stakeholders, and decision-makers to prioritize, design, and fulfill their data analytics needs
• You’ll identify KPIs driving business growth and performance and work closely with the business teams to define them
• You’ll work across the data stack to design and build various data products (data models, dashboards, analysis) that enable the business to make data-backed decisions
• You’ll help garner trust in data from the business by documenting analytics best practices, assisting with data discoverability, governance, and accuracy
• You’ll promote and drive a self-service data culture by building easy-to-use analytics products and teaching the business users how to use them
• You’ll communicate progress, risks, and completion of projects to stakeholders

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in BI or Analytics teams
• Experience with cloud data warehouse technologies (BigQuery is a plus)
• Driven by logical and analytical thinking to solve problems and have an eye for detail-oriented analysis and design
• Hands-on experience in building and managing data transformations (dbt experience is a plus)
• Ability to craft functional and user-friendly data products (pipelines, data models, dashboards, etc.) for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Functional knowledge of financial, sales, or other core business metrics
• Able to manage professional relationships across a variety of stakeholders, including executives
• Able to identify and prioritize multiple requirements and manage expectations accordingly
• Collaborative and willing to traverse and contribute to the entire data stack, from front-end to back-end as needed

Work Hours

This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements

For office/hybrid role only
This position is open to the following preferred office locations:
San Francisco, CA USA
Denver, CO USA
New York, NY USA
Culver City, CA USA

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $155,370.00 to $186,444.00. Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program
• Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
• A Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days

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.
• 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.