Vice President of Engineering

Summary

Join Fastly as the Vice President of Engineering, Compute and Ecosystem! Lead engineering teams responsible for Fastly's edge computing platform and new products. Partner with product management to prioritize the edge compute strategy. Guide the design and implementation of a resilient platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams. Mentor and provide feedback to engineers. Recruit and hire software engineers and managers. This role requires a startup mindset, experience with product-market fit, strategic systems thinking, and strong leadership skills. The position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Startup/founder mindset - you take ownership and enjoy building and growing new products
• Experience with product-market-fit journey
• Strategic systems thinking
• Ability to lead a distributed team effectively
• Ability to guide, cultivate, and support a strong engineering culture
• Experience guiding teams to craft high quality, maintainable code with a high level of rigor
• Excellence in collaboration and communication with both technical and non-technical partners
• Engineering management experience or experience leading teams of senior engineers
• Empathy for the users of tools and systems produced by your teams
• Capable of crafting metrics, iterating on measurement, and motivating change
• High emotional intelligence

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering teams responsible for Fastly’s edge computing platform and other new products
• Partner with product management and program management to prioritize and plan the overall edge compute strategy and plan
• Guide the design and implementation of an efficient, resilient platform
• Collaborate with peers working on UI/UX, Customer Success, and Operations, among others, to grow the platform
• Mentor and provide regular feedback to engineers in the team on design, architecture, development, quality, and career development
• Recruit and hire software engineers and managers as needed
• Stay close to the systems and code the team is producing
• Establish continuous improvement with the teams to drive both safety and speed
• Deliver tools and documentation to engineers on other teams, and training and supporting them as they use those tools to improve their own projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Products for developers and/or enterprise software
• A software product through first release to scale
• Software with high availability requirements
• High performance, large scale, or global multi-tenant systems
• Software platforms (e.g. operating systems, browsers, compilers, game platforms)
• Rust, or some of the languages that influenced the design of Rust

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program
• Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
• An open vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 401(k) (including company match)
• An Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 10 paid local holidays
• 11 paid company wellness days
• This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs