Senior Engineering Manager, Edge Delivery & Varnish

Fastly, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 228,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Paid holidays & wellness days

Job summary

Fastly is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Edge Delivery team. You will oversee a distributed group responsible for the Varnish engine, VCL compiler, and edge caching systems globally, guiding strategy with the director while ensuring efficient project execution.

You will mentor senior engineers, shape team structure, and partner with product managers to translate roadmaps into actionable projects, maintaining high standards of uptime and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure or systems engineering teams (10+ engineers a plus).
• 10+ years in low-latency systems, networking, CDNs, or C/C++/Rust environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage a distributed team focusing on Varnish internals and new VCL features.
• Organize team structures for scalable, sustainable operations.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career growth and retention of top engineers.
• Collaborate with product managers and director to translate roadmaps into concrete engineering projects.
• Unblock technical issues, refine workflows, and maintain high uptime and performance.
• Participate in incident response and effective triage under pressure.
• Track core metrics: cache hit ratio, throughput, memory usage, and stability under load.

Skills

Team management

Low-latency systems

C/C++/Rust

Communication

Automation

Tools

Varnish

Envoy

Nginx

Apache Traffic Server

Job description

Fastly is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Edge Delivery team. You will oversee a distributed group responsible for the Varnish engine, VCL compiler, and edge caching systems globally, guiding strategy with the director while ensuring efficient project execution.

You will mentor senior engineers, shape team structure, and partner with product managers to translate roadmaps into actionable projects, maintaining high standards of uptime and performance.