Senior Network Engineer
Fastly
- Melbourne, VIC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design, build, and maintain the software & infrastructure that powers Fastly's Edge Cloud Platform
- Develop innovative ways of monitoring performance of the platform, with focus on the experience of end users on the Internet
- Catch and remediate potential issues before they develop into impacting events
- Respond to both internal & external facing incidents. Use learnings from these events to help shape processes, automation and tooling to reduce future occurrences
- Advocate for operational stability of the network. Look for areas of opportunity and partner with engineering teams in the scoping and prioritization of their roadmaps and software solutions
- Participate in an on-call rotation shared with a globally distributed team
- Advanced Linux knowledge and the ability to dive deep into the stack
- Strong programming skills, preferably in Python or Go
- Real-world experience in the protocols and practices that make up the fabric of the global internet, including IP, BGP, Anycast, and DNS
- Experience across cloud hosting solutions (i.e., GCP, AWS and Azure)
- Understanding of highly available & complex systems and how they operate at scale. Ability to think through edge cases and failure scenarios
- Ability to analyze traffic patterns across multiple dimensions using flow-based tools
- implement innovative ways to monitor and measure quantifiable metrics and experience working with tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk or equivalent
- Passionate about knowledge sharing. Strong documentation skills and a willingness to mentor others
- Knowledge of automation in networking
- Strong background in server administration
- Sydney, Australia
- Melbourne, Australia