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About the Role

Fastly is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Edge Delivery team. This team owns the customized Varnish engine at the core of Fastly’s global platform, building and operating the engine, VCL compiler, and edge caching systems. The role involves managing a team of 15 senior engineers, establishing effective team structures, and supporting steady project execution.

Responsibilities

Manage a distributed team working on Varnish internals and developing new VCL features.
Organize the team into sustainable structures to ensure effective and scalable team operations.
Focus on direct management: run regular 1:1s, provide feedback, support career growth, and help retain top technical talent.
Partner with product managers and your director to break high-level roadmaps into clear engineering projects, protecting engineers from unnecessary churn.
Unblock technical issues, refine daily workflows, and maintain high standards for platform uptime and performance.
Participate in incident response: help triage outages, ask the right technical questions, and support the team under pressure.
Keep the team focused on core metrics: cache hit ratio, throughput, memory efficiency, and system stability under high load.

Requirements

5+ years of experience managing infrastructure or systems engineering teams, including experience leading larger groups (10+ engineers) or setting up tech lead structures.
10+ years of related engineering experience in low-latency systems, networking, CDNs, or C/C++/Rust environments, with enough depth to review engineering proposals and prioritize tech debt.
Enthusiasm for developing senior engineers, building balanced team workflows, and measuring success by team output and health.
Experience building collaborative, accountable teams with a habit of providing clear, honest, and constructive feedback.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience managing distributed teams and turning complex goals into clear tasks.
A practical approach to problem-solving and a preference for automation over manual work.

Skills

Varnish
High-throughput HTTP proxy architectures (e.g., Envoy, Nginx, Apache Traffic Server)
HTTP caching mechanics and protocols (headers, stale-while-revalidate, conditional requests, object lifecycles)
Globally distributed edge networks
CDNs
Large-scale traffic management systems

Location

New York, NY
Denver, CO
San Francisco, CA
US (Remote)

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$228,280 to $273,936

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 have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also 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.

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.