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About the Role

Fastly is seeking a deeply technical and collaborative Architect to help shape the future of its edge cloud platform. Reporting directly to the CTO, this role will influence the company's long-term technical direction, scale architectural decision-making, and act as a force multiplier across Engineering and Product.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CTO and SVP of Engineering to shape, communicate, and implement Fastly’s long-term technical direction.
• Improve mechanisms for durable architectural decisions, including review forums, technical principles, standards, and escalation paths.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor, creating clarity around ambiguous technical problems and helping teams make principled tradeoffs.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, helping them grow their scope, judgment, and influence.
• Represent the CTO’s technical perspective in selected forums, including architecture reviews or product decisions.
• Support strategic customer, partner, and executive conversations requiring deep technical credibility and long-term platform context.
• Identify emerging technologies and architectural opportunities to improve customer experience, competitive position, or operating model.
• Evangelize Fastly externally through conference speaking, open source contributions, and participation in industry standards bodies.

Requirements

• Extensive experience as an Architect, Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, Fellow, or equivalent senior technical leader.
• Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, edge computing, CDN, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, or related platform technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical vision and translate it into practical architecture, standards, and execution paths.
• Strong judgment across technical, operational, product, customer, and business tradeoffs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to any audience.
• A track record of mentoring senior technical talent and helping others increase their impact.
• Ability to influence across teams and functions without relying on formal authority.
• Track record of simplifying complex systems and helping organizations converge on durable technical direction.
• Ability to challenge constructively, build alignment, and lead through influence at the most senior levels of an engineering organization.
• Must be available during core business hours, with occasional nights and weekends as necessary for on-call coverage or escalations.

Skills

• Large-scale distributed systems
• Edge computing
• CDN
• Cloud infrastructure
• Networking
• Security
• Technical vision setting
• Architecture definition
• Standards development
• Execution planning
• Technical mentorship
• Cross-functional influence
• Complex system simplification
• External evangelism
• Conference speaking
• Open source contribution
• Industry standards participation

Location

• San Francisco, CA

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior technical leader

Salary/Compensations

• $329,493 to $411,867

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Family planning support
• Mental health support
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Accident insurance
• Flexible Vacation policy
• 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 401(k) with company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 11 paid local holidays
• 12 paid company wellness days

About the Company

• 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 prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.
• We're building a more trustworthy Internet.
• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach.
• We support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives.
• Employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart.
• We value diversity and are committed to being a company where employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work.
• We are passionate and employ a diverse range of individuals with varied interests.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.
• 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.
• Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
• If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901.