Staff Software Engineer - Linux Kernel is open at Fastly in Denver, CO; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA. The posting gives a salary of $211K - $254K. Posted on Oct 7, 2026, and still on Fastly’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Set technical direction for kernel projects, own them end to end from problem statement to fleet rollout, and mentor engineers on the team Take new servers, CPUs and NICs from first boot to full fleet: drivers, IRQ affinity, RSS and queue layout on high core count hosts Improve datapath and transport performance with XDP, eBPF and protocol work based on IETF specifications Debug problems that cross layers with…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Fastly’s careers page.
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