Senior Engineering Manager

Who you are

• 4+ years of experience managing Software Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering teams
• 10+ years of related technical experience with distributed systems, CDN, or cloud infrastructure such as container networking, platform ownership, virtualization technology
• Extensive hands-on experience in software development using Go, Rust, or C/C++
• Demonstrated ability to drive a durable technical roadmap and facilitate effective collaboration in cross-functional teams
• Experience building and automating large scale production infrastructure in on-prem environments within a complex and dynamic networking environment
• Extensive hands on experience working in a Linux environment with a solid understanding of system internals and performance optimization
• Experience participating in open source communities or standards bodies
• Experience transforming production enterprise scale environment to new technologies
• Experience adopting or operating in high compliance production environments

What the job involves

• The Containers at the Edge team is responsible for architecting, deploying, and managing our distributed container infrastructure at the edge in support of customer workloads
• As Senior Engineering Manager of the team, you will hire and lead a high-performing engineering team to ensure low latency, high availability, and secure application delivery across a geographically diverse fleet of thousands of resource-constrained nodes
• You will foster a culture of technical rigor, operational excellence, and innovation across the entire platform domain, moving beyond single-team execution to driving cross-organizational advancements. While reliability is critical, innovation is key to success -driving strategic improvements, building foundational team processes and software systems that continually evolve
• Define the long-term strategic vision and multi-year technical roadmap,ensuring these investments align with Fastly’s overall business
• Hire and develop a high-performing team that includes software engineers, principal-level individual contributors and SREs, focusing on organizational structure, talent development, and scaling team capabilities to meet future demand
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders using a product-owner mindset to define clear roadmaps and priorities
• Clearly communicate the strategy, progress, and risk profile to executive leadership and technical stakeholders across the company
• You will need to leverage deep, related technical experience to succeed in this role, including your own development contributions

The application process

• Anticipated Posting Close Date: Sept. 4, 2026

Benefits

• Parental support and beyond: We support our families by offering generous time off for parental leave. And beyond that, we work hard to build a culture that allows for all employees to have the life outside work that they desire year round.
• Health and wellness: Your well-being matters here. Our health plans offer a variety of options, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, mental health resources, and more.
• Invest in your future: We offer 401(k)/retirement plans, employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP), and reimbursements for learning and development programs — so we can support your ongoing growth and success.
• Keep learning and growing: Helping people go further means nurturing their talent. Through annual reimbursements for employee learning activities, regular hangouts and advice from our Senior Staff, talks from industry leaders, and cultural events — we offer tons of opportunities for people to learn. And we’re always looking to grow as a company, too: we collect employee engagement and experience data annually and leverage our Employee Experience Champion Network to understand employee feedback, so we can keep improving.