Senior Engineer - Production Cloud and Container Services
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to decide which sections to include based on content.
The posting includes:
- Intro about Fastly (company description) maybe "About the role"? Actually "About the role" could be the description of the role: "Senior Engineer - Production Cloud and Container Services Fleet Operations and Production Engineering at Fastly is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud and Container Services team. This role is focused on helping to scale and manage Fastly’s Kubernetes based platform for control plane services. ..." That's a description.
- "What You'll Do" list of responsibilities.
- "What We're Looking For" list of requirements/qualifications/skills.
- "Work Hours" schedule info.
- "Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:" location.
- "Salary" pay range.
- "Benefits" description.
- "Why Fastly?" maybe not needed but could be considered "About the company"? But we can ignore if not required.
We need to avoid boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, scam warning, application instructions, privacy, etc. Also remove duplicated lines.
We need to keep substantive info: responsibilities list, requirements list, work hours, location, salary, benefits.
We need to format using
headings for sections we include.
We need to decide which headings: About the role (maybe a short paragraph summarizing role), Responsibilities (What You'll Do), Requirements (What We're Looking For) could be split into Qualifications and Skills but we can just have Requirements. Could also have Skills separate but not needed. Pay (Salary). Schedule (Work Hours). Benefits. Work Location maybe could be part of About the role or separate but we have no heading for location; we could include under About the role or maybe a separate heading like "Location". Not in list but we could still include if needed? The instruction says use headings e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. It doesn't forbid other headings but suggests those. Probably better to stick to those. Location could be included in About the role paragraph.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Salary section: we have specific range, so we can include Pay.
Schedule: we have Work Hours description.
Benefits: we have description.
Now we need to extract content.
Let's parse:
Company intro: "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." This is generic company description; could be part of About the role? Might be considered boilerplate? It's not exactly boilerplate but it's generic marketing. Might be okay to include as part of About the role. However we need to preserve ALL substantive information; we can include it.
Then posting dates: "Posting Open Date: Sept. 25, 2026 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Oct. 23, 2026 Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants." This is metadata; we can fold into a short
or drop. Probably drop as minor metadata.
Then role title: "Senior Engineer - Production Cloud and Container Services Fleet Operations and Production Engineering at Fastly is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud and Container Services team." Actually the title repeated; we should not repeat job title as heading. We'll just include description.
Then: "This role is focused on helping to scale and manage Fastly’s Kubernetes based platform for control plane services. This platform is built on top of multiple public cloud services and contains many Kubernetes ecosystem components. We’re working to scale out our platform to support growth and at the same time evolve to address new business priorities. A successful candidate will help expand our platform feature set, support existing users and onboard new services, and drive efficiency while maintaining a secure platform."
That's role description.
Then "What You'll Do" list: bullet points (each line starts with a capital verb). We need to convert to
- .
List:
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure (cloud, Fastly datacenter) to enable reliable and rapid deployment. This includes effective monitoring and resilient operations in a large-scale multi-cloud and hybrid cloud / on-premise environment. The majority of workloads are containerized but some are using native cloud services such as compute and storage.
- Diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues across the stack: application, operating system, network, 3rd party services and APIs, including cross-application dependencies.
- Deploy and support complex 3rd party and internally developed applications.
- Write tools to automate maintenance and deployment of servers, services, and applications.
- Collaborate with internal users and continually evolve the platform and its operations using solid engineering practices.
- Drive projects sometimes independently and sometimes collaboratively across time zones.
- Configure access and manage operations within a multi-cloud environment.
That's responsibilities.
Then "What We're Looking For" list: many bullet points.
We need to extract each bullet.
List:
- Experience running high availability systems and supporting distributed infrastructure. Most Senior level Engineers at Fastly have more than 5 years of related experience.
- You have designed services with fault tolerance and across geographies.
- You have deployed and managed multi-tiered services.
- Understanding of Linux systems, high and low level. You have used tcpdump and tracing tools.
- Experience building and operating production-grade kubernetes clusters in multiple regions, clouds or data centers. You have experience with tooling in the CNCF space, such as: prometheus, flux, helm, etc.
- Experience with programming languages such as Go and Python. You can read code and reason about what it does. You can write code within an existing large code base such as adding features. You can create medium-sized programs from scratch such as custom kubernetes controllers, custom prometheus exporters, and building tooling to help manage infrastructure.
- Experience with infrastructure and configuration management tooling. You have used Terraform to manage infrastructure. Experience provisioning and managing users and resources with cloud providers such as AWS and GCP. You have provisioned users and accounts using both graphical user interfaces and infrastructure as code frameworks. You have experience provisioning components on public cloud and understand how they work together in creating a multi-tiered service. You have deployed and managed services built on top of public cloud components such as EC2, S3, and GKE.
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling. You can iterate infrastructure via pipelines through code changes. You have experience using Github including creating and reviewing pull requests.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog and Grafana.
- Experience working on a distributed team. You have experience collaborating across timezones. You can articulate challenges of distributed teams and how you mitigate them.
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to accelerate your work and enable new capabilities. You have used tooling like Claude Code and created skills or agents with demonstrated success in unlocking you, your team, and/or the company to achieve more.
That's requirements.
Then "Work Hours": "This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support on-call coverage."
That's schedule.
Then "Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: The preferred locations for this position are: San Francisco, CA, USADenver, CO, USANew York, NY, USA Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US, UK or Canada. This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager."
We can include location info maybe in About the role or separate but we have no heading for location; we could incorporate into About the role paragraph.
Then "Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records." This is EEO/legal; we should remove.
Then "Salary The estimated salary range for this position when hired in the US is $181,220 to $217,464. Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs."
That's pay.
Then "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? In the US, we offer a 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 are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days."
That's benefits.
Then "Why Fastly?" etc. That's marketing; could be considered boilerplate? Might be okay to include but we prefer few substantive sections. Could omit as not required.
Then application instructions etc: remove.
Thus we will create sections:
- About the role: include company intro + role description (maybe combine). We'll put as
paragraphs.
- Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
with each bullet.
- Requirements: Requirements
with each bullet.
- Pay: Pay
with salary range and note about equity/bonus.
- Schedule:
Schedule
with work hours.
- Benefits:
Benefits
with benefits description.
We might also include Location as part of About the role.
We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to avoid duplication: ensure we don't repeat same bullet.
Now produce HTML fragment.
We must not include or tags.
We'll output something like:
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,
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to decide which sections to include based on content. The posting includes: - Intro about Fastly (company description) maybe "About the role"? Actually "About the role" could be the description of the role: "Senior Engineer - Production Cloud and Container Services Fleet Operations and Production Engineering at Fastly is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud and Container Services team. This role is focused on helping to scale and manage Fastly’s Kubernetes based platform for control plane services. ..." That's a description. - "What You'll Do" list of responsibilities. - "What We're Looking For" list of requirements/qualifications/skills. - "Work Hours" schedule info. - "Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:" location. - "Salary" pay range. - "Benefits" description. - "Why Fastly?" maybe not needed but could be considered "About the company"? But we can ignore if not required. We need to avoid boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, scam warning, application instructions, privacy, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. We need to keep substantive info: responsibilities list, requirements list, work hours, location, salary, benefits. We need to format using
headings for sections we include. We need to decide which headings: About the role (maybe a short paragraph summarizing role), Responsibilities (What You'll Do), Requirements (What We're Looking For) could be split into Qualifications and Skills but we can just have Requirements. Could also have Skills separate but not needed. Pay (Salary). Schedule (Work Hours). Benefits. Work Location maybe could be part of About the role or separate but we have no heading for location; we could include under About the role or maybe a separate heading like "Location". Not in list but we could still include if needed? The instruction says use headings e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. It doesn't forbid other headings but suggests those. Probably better to stick to those. Location could be included in About the role paragraph. We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Salary section: we have specific range, so we can include Pay. Schedule: we have Work Hours description. Benefits: we have description. Now we need to extract content. Let's parse: Company intro: "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." This is generic company description; could be part of About the role? Might be considered boilerplate? It's not exactly boilerplate but it's generic marketing. Might be okay to include as part of About the role. However we need to preserve ALL substantive information; we can include it. Then posting dates: "Posting Open Date: Sept. 25, 2026 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Oct. 23, 2026 Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants." This is metadata; we can fold into a short
or drop. Probably drop as minor metadata. Then role title: "Senior Engineer - Production Cloud and Container Services Fleet Operations and Production Engineering at Fastly is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud and Container Services team." Actually the title repeated; we should not repeat job title as heading. We'll just include description. Then: "This role is focused on helping to scale and manage Fastly’s Kubernetes based platform for control plane services. This platform is built on top of multiple public cloud services and contains many Kubernetes ecosystem components. We’re working to scale out our platform to support growth and at the same time evolve to address new business priorities. A successful candidate will help expand our platform feature set, support existing users and onboard new services, and drive efficiency while maintaining a secure platform." That's role description. Then "What You'll Do" list: bullet points (each line starts with a capital verb). We need to convert to
- .
List:
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure (cloud, Fastly datacenter) to enable reliable and rapid deployment. This includes effective monitoring and resilient operations in a large-scale multi-cloud and hybrid cloud / on-premise environment. The majority of workloads are containerized but some are using native cloud services such as compute and storage.
- Diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues across the stack: application, operating system, network, 3rd party services and APIs, including cross-application dependencies.
- Deploy and support complex 3rd party and internally developed applications.
- Write tools to automate maintenance and deployment of servers, services, and applications.
- Collaborate with internal users and continually evolve the platform and its operations using solid engineering practices.
- Drive projects sometimes independently and sometimes collaboratively across time zones.
- Configure access and manage operations within a multi-cloud environment.
That's responsibilities.
Then "What We're Looking For" list: many bullet points.
We need to extract each bullet.
List:
- Experience running high availability systems and supporting distributed infrastructure. Most Senior level Engineers at Fastly have more than 5 years of related experience.
- You have designed services with fault tolerance and across geographies.
- You have deployed and managed multi-tiered services.
- Understanding of Linux systems, high and low level. You have used tcpdump and tracing tools.
- Experience building and operating production-grade kubernetes clusters in multiple regions, clouds or data centers. You have experience with tooling in the CNCF space, such as: prometheus, flux, helm, etc.
- Experience with programming languages such as Go and Python. You can read code and reason about what it does. You can write code within an existing large code base such as adding features. You can create medium-sized programs from scratch such as custom kubernetes controllers, custom prometheus exporters, and building tooling to help manage infrastructure.
- Experience with infrastructure and configuration management tooling. You have used Terraform to manage infrastructure. Experience provisioning and managing users and resources with cloud providers such as AWS and GCP. You have provisioned users and accounts using both graphical user interfaces and infrastructure as code frameworks. You have experience provisioning components on public cloud and understand how they work together in creating a multi-tiered service. You have deployed and managed services built on top of public cloud components such as EC2, S3, and GKE.
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling. You can iterate infrastructure via pipelines through code changes. You have experience using Github including creating and reviewing pull requests.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog and Grafana.
- Experience working on a distributed team. You have experience collaborating across timezones. You can articulate challenges of distributed teams and how you mitigate them.
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to accelerate your work and enable new capabilities. You have used tooling like Claude Code and created skills or agents with demonstrated success in unlocking you, your team, and/or the company to achieve more.
That's requirements.
Then "Work Hours": "This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support on-call coverage."
That's schedule.
Then "Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: The preferred locations for this position are: San Francisco, CA, USADenver, CO, USANew York, NY, USA Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US, UK or Canada. This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager."
We can include location info maybe in About the role or separate but we have no heading for location; we could incorporate into About the role paragraph.
Then "Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records." This is EEO/legal; we should remove.
Then "Salary The estimated salary range for this position when hired in the US is $181,220 to $217,464. Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs."
That's pay.
Then "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? In the US, we offer a 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 are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days."
That's benefits.
Then "Why Fastly?" etc. That's marketing; could be considered boilerplate? Might be okay to include but we prefer few substantive sections. Could omit as not required.
Then application instructions etc: remove.
Thus we will create sections:
- About the role: include company intro + role description (maybe combine). We'll put as
paragraphs. - Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- with each bullet.
- Requirements:
Requirements
- with each bullet.
- Pay:
Pay
with salary range and note about equity/bonus. - Schedule:
Schedule
with work hours. - Benefits:
Benefits
with benefits description. We might also include Location as part of About the role. We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to avoid duplication: ensure we don't repeat same bullet. Now produce HTML fragment. We must not include or tags. We'll output something like:
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,