Edge Delivery Engineering Lead

Fastly, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to guide the Edge Delivery team, overseeing the customized Varnish engine, VCL compiler, and edge caching systems that power the global platform.

You will work with an engineering director, manage 15 senior engineers, shape team structure, and ensure steady project execution while maintaining uptime and performance.

This role requires strong leadership, deep experience in low-latency networks, and a hands-on, automation-focused mindset.

Qualifications

• 5+ years 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.

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.

Skills

People management

Senior engineering leadership

C/C++/Rust

Low-latency systems

CDN/edge networks

Varnish knowledge

Incident response

Communication

Automation mindset

Tools

Varnish

Envoy

Nginx

Job description

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to guide the Edge Delivery team, overseeing the customized Varnish engine, VCL compiler, and edge caching systems that power the global platform.

You will work with an engineering director, manage 15 senior engineers, shape team structure, and ensure steady project execution while maintaining uptime and performance.

This role requires strong leadership, deep experience in low-latency networks, and a hands-on, automation-focused mindset.