Staff Software Engineer - Linux Kernel
Fastly · Denver, CO; New York City, NY; San Francisco
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- Company
- Fastly
- Location
- Denver, CO; New York City, NY; San Francisco
- Salary
- $211,370 to $253,644
- Posted
- October 7, 2026
About this job
10/07/2026 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 11/6/26 *Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants. Staff Software Engineer, Linux Edge Kernel Fastly's Kernel and Host Networking team builds and ships the Linux kernel that runs on every server in our global edge network, and every customer request passes through it. As a Staff engineer you own technical problems end to end: from a crash signature or a new NIC on the bench, through root cause and design, to a change that is upstreamed and safely running on thousands of servers. The work spans networking, XDP and eBPF, memory, performance and hardware enablement. It also spans layers.…
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