Senior Engineering Manager, Fastly

• Does the idea of turning thousands of blank, powered‑off servers into fully configured, production‑ready machines with a single, deterministic pipeline sound like your kind of challenge
• 10+ years hands‑on systems or infrastructure engineering (Go, Python, Rust, or similar) building automation for bare‑metal provisioning, OS imaging, and configuration management at fleet scale
• 5+ years in engineering leadership roles including managing other managers or tech leads
• Demonstrated ability to scale complex provisioning / automation platforms across thousands of servers or devices
• Deep expertise in boot & hardware pipelines—PXE/UEFI HTTP, BMC / Redfish, secure boot, firmware flashing, and tools like Chef or Ansible and experience making high-leverage architectural decisions at org scale
• Proven technical leadership of teams and mission‑critical projects (mentoring, driving design reviews, owning roadmaps), not just delivery execution
• Strong cross‑functional collaboration and executive communication skills, able to align long-term technical strategy with business goals

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Infrastructure Automation team, owning everything from “cold silicon” power‑on to Chef convergence at fleet scale
• You’ll shape the vision, mentor a team of sharp developers and scale the organization
• You’ll set a deeply technical direction with a focus on building the tooling, APIs, and observability that make site bring‑up as effortless and repeatable as a git push, unlocking rapid deployments at scale
• Define and drive the multi-year architecture roadmap for fully automated bring-up of new hardware platforms and PoPs for deterministic, end‑to‑end provisioning automation across all existing and new hardware platforms
• Lead and mentor senior engineers and managers, creating an org that excels in systems design, operational reliability, and rapid iteration
• Deliver and operate scalable tooling, APIs, and dashboards that make bulk site bring‑ups self‑service, idempotent, and fully traceable
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Operations (DC & Net), Hardware, and Security to align firmware, OS, and config‑management workflows with fleet‑wide SLAs; also while iterating POP design, and using that expertise to influence organizational strategy and architecture at scale
• Own success metrics (e.g. first‑pass yield & error‑recovery time) and drive continuous improvement through data‑driven retrospectives and translate into roadmap updates
• This position will require you to be available during core business hours. You will also be on-call during evenings and weekends as an escalation point in team on-call rotation

• Anticipated Posting Close Date Sept. 23, 2025
• Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants