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About the Role

This role owns Fastly's answer to how and where code runs in the evolving internet landscape shaped by AI, automation, and machine traffic. You will manage Compute and VCL as a single, coherent runtime surface, defining their convergence, purpose-built aspects, and shared primitives to create a unified platform for customer workloads.

Responsibilities

• Own the runtime surface end-to-end, defining and driving the strategy and roadmap for Fastly's runtimes, including Compute and VCL.
• Define where runtimes converge, remain purpose-built, and what primitives they should share, reducing duplicated abstractions.
• Enhance Compute as a runtime and platform surface, focusing on primitives, predictable limits, and reliability for demanding workloads.
• Bring new execution models onto Fastly as native runtime workloads, defining their integration and fit alongside Compute and VCL.
• Define how runtimes meet the AI era by building necessary primitives and controls for AI workloads and new execution patterns.
• Form strong technical opinions on runtime direction, defend them with evidence, and drive decisions across Engineering, Product, and leadership.
• Partner closely with the Core Infrastructure technical lead, go-to-market functions, and the hybrid/on-prem team to execute across boundaries.
• Bring structure to ambiguous problems and move decisions forward earlier.

Requirements

• 8+ years in product management or technical product leadership, ideally on infrastructure, platform, or developer-facing products.
• Deep understanding of execution environments, including runtimes, containers, isolation models, serverless or edge compute, and their trade-offs.
• Demonstrated bias for shipping; comfortable owning outcomes in ambiguous, fast-moving conditions.
• Proven ability to form strong technical opinions, defend them with evidence, and lead without authority.
• Clear, confident communicator capable of deep technical discussion and crisp strategic framing.
• Genuine curiosity about customer problems and ability to translate runtime capabilities into developer productivity and business value.
• Must be available during core business hours.

Skills

• Runtime and systems fluency
• Execution focus
• Conviction and influence
• Communication and presence
• Customer empathy
• Startup or 0-to-1 experience building and shipping technical products
• Hands-on background with runtime and isolation technology (e.g., container platforms, WebAssembly component model and WASI 0.3, Firecracker or comparable microVM and sandboxing stacks, or similar execution engines)
• Experience with edge compute, developer platforms, or runtime interoperability at scale

Location

• Hybrid
• Remote
• New York, NY
• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• US

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Remote

Experience Level

• Staff

Salary/Compensations

• $211,370.00 to $253,644.00

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Family planning
• Mental health support
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life, Disability, and Accident Insurance
• Flexible Vacation policy
• Up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 401(k) (including company match)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 12 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 most 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.
• 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.