Senior Engineering Manager, Edge Containers & Infra

Linuxcareers; New York (NY); On-site; USD 228,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Family planning

Mental health support

Employee Assistance Program

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Accident Insurance

Flexible vacation

Paid sick leave

401(k) match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

11 paid local holidays

Wellness days

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Containers at the Edge team to architect, deploy, and manage distributed container infrastructure across edge nodes to support customer workloads.

You will define strategy, hire and scale a high-performing team, collaborate with product and SRE owners, and contribute technically to advance the platform while communicating with executives.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience managing Software Engineering or SRE teams.
• 10+ years in distributed systems, CDN, or cloud infrastructure incl. container networking, platform ownership, and virtualization.
• Hands-on development experience with Go, Rust, or C/C++.
• Proven ability to drive a durable technical roadmap and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience building and automating large-scale production infra in on-prem environments.
• Extensive Linux experience with strong system internals and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term strategic vision and multi-year technical roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Hire, develop, and scale a high-performing engineering team including software engineers, principal-level ICs, and SREs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define roadmaps and priorities using a product-owner mindset.
• Communicate strategy, progress, and risk profile to executive leadership and technical stakeholders.
• Leverage deep technical experience to contribute personally to development and drive platform innovation.

Skills

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Go

Rust

C/C++

Cloud infrastructure

Cross-functional collaboration

Linux internals

Production automation

Job description

Fastly is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Containers at the Edge team to architect, deploy, and manage distributed container infrastructure across edge nodes to support customer workloads.

You will define strategy, hire and scale a high-performing team, collaborate with product and SRE owners, and contribute technically to advance the platform while communicating with executives.