Senior Engineering Manager - Compute Platform

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly'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. Fastly's customers include many of the world's most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

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Senior Engineering Manager - Compute Platform

Fastly's Compute Platform is the ultimate flexible edge-compute platform. Our unique serverless platform scales workloads globally, without our customers lifting a single finger to manage their edge infrastructure. In partnership with the WebAssembly community, we're developing new ecosystem capabilities and expanding first-class programming language and tooling support for Fastly's Compute Platform.

We are looking for a passionate and innovative Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for building the systems that executes WebAssembly workloads. You will bring your passion for cultivating engineering best practices to support a distributed team of talented people.

What You'll Do:

• Manage a team of very senior engineers
• Build a reporting processes, track and organize the team's work and progress and prioritize incoming requests
• Work closely with product management partners
• Provide updates to management on an ongoing cadence

What We're Looking For:

• You have 12 years of engineering experience with a minimum of 5 of those in a direct management role.
• You have a minimum of 5 years experience in the public cloud or large distributed systems space.

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

• Our software systems integrate tightly with Wasmtime and other technologies being developed in partnership with the broader WebAssembly ecosystem. This is not required prior experience, but you will become very familiar with these technologies at Fastly.

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core North American business hours, and available to support the team during incidents that require escalation, which may occur during Western European hours.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• New York, NY

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $ 195,720 to $ 244,640 .

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly's equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2024, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives . Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We love distributed teams. Fastly's home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly, participate in hands-on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we're not 'one size fits all'. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We're always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

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