Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Fastly's API Services team as a Senior Engineering Manager! You'll lead a collaborative team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining Fastly's Control Plane APIs. This role requires 10+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years leading distributed systems teams. You'll focus on scalability, stability, and automation, mentoring your team and building strong partnerships. Fastly offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible hybrid work model. Apply now to help build a more trustworthy internet!

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software
• 3+ years experience leading teams that design, build, scale and maintain distributed systems
• Track record leveraging metrics to set goals and measure success of teams and systems
• Proven success managing complex technical projects with various interdependencies
• Experience advocating simultaneously for business goals, customer value, and developer happiness
• Effective communication skills for working across the organization, including the ability to build positive relationships with peers and leadership

Responsibilities

• Manage a collaborative, distributed engineering team
• Provide mentorship and career development opportunities for your team members
• Balance the tradeoffs in technical approaches to prioritize both scalability and stability
• Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks in software design, system performance, and production stability. Lead proactive planning and incident post-mortems to prevent future issues
• Drive a culture of operational rigor, ensuring the team delivers high-availability services with well-defined SLAs, clear runbooks, and robust incident response processes
• Provide context to technical conversations that drive clear goals and prioritization
• Build and maintain close partnerships with stakeholders that enable your team to deliver effectively
• Clearly communicate upward and outward to set and adjust expectations with your partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading teams with embedded SREs focused on automating build pipelines and supporting high throughput systems in the cloud
• Success evolving critical systems while effectively balancing reliability, resiliency and scalability needs
• Experience leading and building cohesive and engaged teams that execute effectively within a distributed environment

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program
• Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
• Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 401(k) (including company match)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• For 2025, we offer 11 paid local holidays and 11 paid company wellness days
• This position is open to remote locations
• Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home