Senior Manager, Edge Delivery & Varnish Engineering

Fastly, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 228,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

11 paid local holidays

12 paid company wellness days

Flexible vacation policy

Up to 18 days accrued paid sick leave

Job summary

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Edge Delivery team responsible for the dedicated Varnish engine at the core of Fastly’s global platform.

You will manage 15 senior engineers, shape team structure, and drive performance-focused engineering initiatives. You will collaborate with an engineering director on strategy and execution, ensuring smooth project delivery, timely incidents response, and robust uptime.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure or systems engineering teams, including experience leading larger groups (10+ engineers)
• 10+ years of related engineering experience in low-latency systems, networking, CDNs, or C/C++/Rust environments

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

Team management

Distributed teams

Low-latency systems

Networking

C/C++/Rust

Tools

Varnish

VCL

Envoy

Nginx

Job description

Fastly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Edge Delivery team responsible for the dedicated Varnish engine at the core of Fastly’s global platform.

You will manage 15 senior engineers, shape team structure, and drive performance-focused engineering initiatives. You will collaborate with an engineering director on strategy and execution, ensuring smooth project delivery, timely incidents response, and robust uptime.