Senior Engineering Manager - Containers at Edge
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- 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
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 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
- Leverage deep, related technical experience to succeed in this role, including your own development contributions
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Family planning
- mental health support
- Employee Assistance Program
- Life, Disability, and Accident Insurance
- Flexible Vacation policy
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
