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 Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.
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UI Engineer - Security Products
The Security Products group is responsible for developing a range of security related products at Fastly. As a part of this group, you would be working with the technology brought in through the Signal Science acquisition. We are made up of multifaceted teams that work together to build industry leading security products that our customers rely on to secure their infrastructure.
Our UI/UX-focused team builds and maintains components and infrastructure to support a vast array of product needs. We value consistency over configuration and have a fondness for patterns. We are a team of collaborative, empathetic, and ego-less engineers hyper-focused on delivering world-class UI to our customers.
We are looking for a full-time frontend engineer with an aim to build highly usable frontend interfaces for our customers to love.
This role is limited to non-US only.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with Product Managers, designers, and customers to develop UI experiences that are used at scale
- Build tested, maintainable, and usable UI components in our growing UI component library
- Collaborate with backend engineers and systems (we use Go), including participating in code reviews
- Build a solid architectural foundation for our frontend engineers
- Learn from your peers and help guide UI architecture and practices within and across teams
- Help define strategies for implementing new UI/UX patterns in legacy systems
What We're Looking For
- 2+ years developing and maintaining robust user experiences using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
- Experience building & testing production applications with React or other JavaScript frameworks
- Experience designing APIs for UI components
- Experience surfacing and advocating for customer needs
- Understanding of UI/UX design principles
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Strong desire to learn new skills and hone your craft
We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. It would be an added bonus if you have experience in ANY of these:
- Experience working with React component libraries and design systems
- Experience executing designs directly, or working closely with design teams
- Experience discussing technical details with designers to discover reasonable compromises
- Experience synthesizing diverse feedback into reusable components
- Experience writing semantic markup
- Experience with accessibility (A11y) standards
Why Fastly?
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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.
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We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
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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 like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
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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.
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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!
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