Staff Hardware Design 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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineering teams, supply chain, vendors, and other leaders or groups to evolve the Fastly hardware infrastructure based on new requirements, constraints, and/or changing technology.
• Develop specifications, RFPs, and other related requirements documentation showcasing the Fastly requirements and design principles for the overall life cycle of the platform and infrastructure.
• Play an active role in the hardware selection process by guiding vendors to understand our requirements, test early engineering samples of next-gen hardware (on and offsite).
• Identify and drive development for off the shelf, semi-custom, and custom SKUs where required from partners or vendors to maximize CAPEX efficiency/TCO while balancing system performance.
• Contribute to the hardware engineering team in the implementation of hardware, testing, firmware, and BIOS changes, including working with operations on keeping the fleet current.
• Collaborate on the testing of hardware - components and system in the lab, pre-production environment, and in production to make data driven decisions on the hardware architecture and vendors.
• Engage application development teams to ensure compatibility and assist in performance evaluation to meet platform requirements and expectations.
• Mentor junior engineering developers, operations, and infrastructure staff.
• Assist in vendor quality activities not limited to: First Article Inspections (FAI), site audit, and root cause analysis.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with hardware system architecture and associated tradeoffs that include software, hardware, operational cost, and mechanical aspects.
• Experience collaborating with a broad range of roles, senior leadership, stakeholders and vendors/partners.
• Strong foundation of management platforms and tools: console servers, IPMI, SSH, PXE, and telemetry systems.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for both internal and external facing situations.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge and experience of storage and memory subsystems.
• Experience with firmware development, programming, bash scripting, tooling creation and maintenance.
• Knowledge in open source operating systems, hypervisors, and orchestration frameworks.
• Background in test automation.
• Deep understanding of various CPU architectures.

Skills

• Hardware system architecture.
• Software, hardware, operational cost, and mechanical aspects.
• Collaboration with a broad range of roles, senior leadership, stakeholders and vendors/partners.
• Management platforms and tools: console servers, IPMI, SSH, PXE, and telemetry systems.
• Communication and interpersonal skills for both internal and external facing situations.
• Storage and memory subsystems.
• Firmware development, programming, bash scripting, tooling creation and maintenance.
• Open source operating systems, hypervisors, and orchestration frameworks.
• Test automation.
• Various CPU architectures.

Benefits

• 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.
• 401(k) (including company match).
• Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• 11 paid local holidays.
• 12 paid company wellness days.

Pay

The estimated salary range for this position in the US is $195,720 to $234,864. Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

Schedule

This position will require you to be available during core business hours. Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: The preferred hybrid locations for this position are: San Francisco, CANew York, NYDenver, CO 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 preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider exceptionally well qualified remote candidates within the US & Canada. This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.