Fastly Careers, Benefits, Review

Our Approach

Our mission is to build a company culture that celebrates the lived experiences of all employees, provides meaningful opportunities for growth, and invests in the hiring of employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We are committed to:

• Being equity-centered, just, and respectful
• Cultivating leaders who inspire inclusion and champion diversity
• Leveraging our range of backgrounds and experiences to enhance creativity, innovation, and problem solving

Employee Resource Groups

Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) aim to create an open forum for those who share similar identities and common interests or concerns. They serve as built-in systems of support and allyship for Fastylans, and help advance a respectful and caring community for all. Fastly ERGs:

• Amig@s (Latinx Fastlyans)
• Blackly (Black Fastlyans)
• *ly/Starly (LGBTQIA Fastlyans)
• FACT (Fastly Asians Coming Together)
• WAGE (Women And Gender Equality)

We’re growing a kind, ethical and inclusive team — we champion good people and great ideas. We value our people tremendously and build our culture around them — creating inclusion and belonging is core to this. We’re doing the foundational work to ensure all Fastlyans can do their best work and thrive. With things like open, welcoming offices, the ability to work remotely, great benefits, an open vacation policy, and puppy love in-office, life at Fastly is genuinely a well-balanced one.

The worldwide cloud services market is projected to grow rapidly to $236 billion in 2020, according to Forrester, Inc. As more and more businesses move operations to the cloud, Fastly is well positioned to continue increasing CDN, cloud networking and cloud security market share with edge cloud services that reach beyond content delivery. With its existing customer success, Fastly has already achieved an annualized run rate of $100 million in under six years to position itself in the top echelon of rapid-growth Silicon Valley companies. Customers include popular online destinations like The New York Times, Airbnb, Spotify, Pinterest, and Ticketmaster.

Leading brands rely on Fastly to innovate faster, build scalable applications, and defend against complex security threats at the edge. Traditional solutions slow down engineering momentum and block innovation; Fastly’s edge cloud platform was built by and for developers to enable them to write and deploy code instantly at the edge in order to meet customer expectations for zero downtime, high speed and personalized experiences.

Fastly’s highly scalable edge cloud platform allows businesses to autoscale applications as they grow while reducing infrastructure investment. In addition, a global collaboration with Google Cloud Platform pairs the Fastly edge cloud platform’s advanced edge compute, enforcement and application delivery solutions with Google Cloud’s origin platform, extending existing cloud infrastructure as close to the end user as possible.

Series A, 2012: $4M, Amplify Partners, Battery Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures

Series B, June 2013: $10M, August Capital

Series C, Sept 2014: $40M, August Capital, Amplify Partners, Battery Ventures, IDG Ventures USA, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures

Series D, Aug 2015: $75M, Iconiq Capital, Amplify Partners, August Capital, Battery Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures

Series E, May 2017: $50M, Sorenson Capital, Sapphire Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, IDG Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, August Capital, Amplify Partners

At Fastly, you’ll get a chance to work with an international team on a globally distributed system that handles millions of requests a second. We offer talented engineers the opportunity to tackle some of the hardest problems in software, hardware, network, infrastructure, and security engineering. Our full-stack engineering organization includes some of the most talented and creative problem-solvers in the industry.

When we say "full-stack" engineering, we mean it – we work on everything from software for hardware switches, custom filesystems and Linux Kernel improvements, complex low-latency distributed systems, massive stats, big data warehouses, to high-performance APIs and single-page Javascript apps.

We’re passionate about open source. Not only do we use open source software in our own products, but we also regularly contribute to Varnish, Chef, Ganglia, and many other leading open source initiatives. We also host open source projects free of charge, including Python, Ruby, Bundler, Drupal, the Linux Foundation, Hashicorp projects, Webpagetest, kernel.org, and more.

In the past year, our open source traffic has tripled, and we host new projects continuously. Learn more about our open source involvement here: https://www.fastly.com/open-source

We're committed to the developer community at Fastly, and love to help host meetups and tech talks in our offices.

We also encourage our employees to attend and/or speak at conferences. We have many Fastly employees who have given talks at conferences such as Velocity, @Scale, OSCON, Strange Loop, and EmberConf.

We’re committed to our customers’ success, and treat their content like our own. Our unique position at the edge helps us protect customers from web-based attacks and keep user identities and transactions secure. As a security engineer at Fastly, you’ll get to explore new ways of mitigating large DDoS attacks, research and build new security technologies to defend against web application security attacks, hunt for security flaws, and protect our environment from sophisticated attacks.

As an Edge Cloud Platform, not only do we face some of the toughest challenges in intrusion detection, cryptography, infrastructure and application security, but we are also at a prime network location to help our customers protect themselves online. All of this on a network which is handling massive amounts of traffic at very low latency. Security engineers and researchers at Fastly have an opportunity to help solve some of the most complex security problems at scale.

Fastly is active in the wider security community and we have several Security team members who participate in various conferences as speakers. In addition, we host our own Security Speaker Series and invite some of the top security engineers and researchers to share their work and perspectives on today's important security topics.

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