Senior Engineering Manager, Edge Delivery

Fastly; 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

the company helps people stay better connected with the things they love. the company’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. the company’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: 10/27/2026

**Anticipated Posting Close Date*: **11/26/26

**Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.*

Senior Engineering Manager - Edge Delivery

the company is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Edge Delivery team. This team owns the customized Varnish engine at the core of the company’s global platform. They build and operate the engine, VCL compiler, and edge caching systems that power the company worldwide, tackling major platform initiatives like next-generation split storage architectures, VCL language evolution and origin connectivity.

You will work alongside an engineering director who focuses on strategy and executive alignment, leaving you free to manage 15 senior engineers, establish effective team structures, and support steady project execution.

What You'll Do:

• 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.

What We're Looking For:

• 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.

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Familiarity with Varnish or high-throughput HTTP proxy architectures (e.g., Envoy, Nginx, Apache Traffic Server).

• Solid understanding of HTTP caching mechanics and protocols (headers, stale-while-revalidate, conditional requests, object lifecycles).

• Experience with globally distributed edge networks, CDNs, or large-scale traffic management systems.

Work Hours:

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

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

The preferred locations for this position are:

• New York, NY

• Denver, CO

• San Francisco, CA

the company 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 remote candidates within the US.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

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.

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