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Posting Open Date: March 13th, 2026
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: May 30th, 2026
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Data Engineer
Fastly’s Analytics team empowers leaders across the business with actionable data to drive key decisions. The team is working to expand and mature a best-in-class internal data platform. As a Data Engineer, you will contribute to the evolution of our data infrastructure, optimizing pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), scaling ingestion of complex data sources, and following best practices for performance and reliability. This is an opportunity to contribute to impactful projects in a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative environment, supporting data scientists, data analysts and business analysts across the organization.
What You'll Do:
- You’ll collaborate and partner with 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 (pipelines, data models, 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 technical and non-technical users how to use them
- You’ll communicate progress, risks, and completion of projects to stakeholders
What We're Looking For:
- You have 3-5 years of hands-on experience in BI or Analytics teams.
- You have experience with cloud data warehouse technologies (BigQuery is a plus)
- You are driven by logical and analytical thinking to solve problems. And have an eye for detail-oriented analysis and design
- You have hands-on experience in building and managing data transformations (dbt experience is a plus)
- You are able to craft functional and user-friendly data products (data models, pipelines, etc..) for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You have experience with a data visualization tool (ie. Looker, Tableau, Mode)
- You are a SQL power user, capable of complex, efficient, and logical SQL to accomplish data modeling goals
- You have functional knowledge of financial, sales, or other core business metrics
- You are able to manage professional relationships across a variety of stakeholders
- You are able to identify and prioritize multiple requirements and manage expectations accordingly
- You are 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:
This position is open to the following preferred office locations OR Remote
- San Francisco, CA USA
- Denver, CO USA
- New York, NY USA
- Culver City, CA USA
Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.
This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
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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.
Salary:
The estimated salary range for this position is $133,200.00 to $159,840.00.
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.
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?
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 12 paid local holidays, 12 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. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
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.
We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.
All job applications must be submitted through our official careers site at www.fastly.com/about/careers. We will never request sensitive information, such as your Social Security number, bank account or credit card information during the application process. All official communication will come from an @fastly.com or @recruiting.fastly.com email address.
Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
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