Senior Engineering Manager - Containers at Edge

Fastly; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Equity program

Discretionary bonus

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Containers at the Edge to lead a distributed, high-performing team responsible for low-latency, secure application delivery across thousands of edge nodes. You will shape the strategic roadmap, nurture talent, and partner with product owners to align priorities with business goals.

You will also communicate strategy and risk to executives, drive cross-functional initiatives, and contribute hands-on where needed to push the platform forward while

Qualifications

• 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.
• Extensive hands-on experience in software development using Go, Rust, or C/C++.

Responsibilities

• 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 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.
• Leverage deep, related technical experience to succeed in this role, including your own development contributions.

Skills

Software engineering management

SRE management

Distributed systems

Go

Rust

C/C++

Job description

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. Come join us. Posting Open Date: Aug. 4, 2026 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Sept. 4, 2026 *Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Senior Engineering Manager, Containers at the Edge

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.

What You'll Do:

• 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

What We're Looking For:

• 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.
• We'll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:
  • 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

Work Hours:

This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support any on-call coverage.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

The preferred locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York, NY

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider exceptionally qualified remote candidates within the US. This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement 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.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $228,280 to $273,936. Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly's equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. Curious about our offerings?

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
• Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 401(k) (including company match)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 11 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days

Why Fastly?

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. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand. 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.

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 [e-mail] or 501-287-4901.