Senior Engineering Manager, Fastly
Data Storage
$195.7-244.6k
Plus stock options
Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$195.7-244.6k
Plus stock options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- You have a total of 12 years of software engineering experience with a minimum of 4 of those years in a direct management role
- Experience building distributed platforms
Desirable
- Building developer tooling, including ergonomic SDK design
- Building developer tooling that integrates cleanly into developer workflows
- Experience with network protocols and caching concepts
- Exposure to WebAssembly
- Having built or run large scale storage systems
- A deep understanding of distributed databases and the trade offs involved
What the job involves
- Your role will enable and nurture a team of some extremely talented engineers
- You will find yourself managing team dependencies, building roadmaps with your team and product partners
- You will drive technical direction, review technical implementation alongside your engineering leaders
- You enjoy thinking big while making intentional steps toward those big goals
- You will be partnering with engineering and product teams from all walks of life and disciplines, all the while cultivating an inclusive and cohesive team environment that enables your engineers to deliver the best software of their lives
- Manage, mentor and support a distributed engineering team
- Ensure collaborative cross functional roadmap planning across engineering and product
- Create just enough process that enables cross functional planning, communication and risk mitigation
- Participate in designing technical solutions with your team and other engineering teams
- Apply your individual contributor experience. You will not be required to actively develop software
- Mentor, grow and provide regular feedback to engineers
- Work with your engineering management peer group to drive broader engineering goals
- Recruit and hire software engineers
- Clearly communicate upward and outward to set expectations for roadmaps and deliverables
- This position will require you to be available during core business hours, and as an escalation point in on-call rotations
Our take
Internet users around the world have come to expect personalized, real-time digital experiences, but delivering these quickly and securely, while maintaining quality, can be a difficult task for businesses.
Fastly enables companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users and improves the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands. Ultimately, it enables clients to focus on growing their businesses rather than improving their customer experience.
The company has helped several high-profile businesses, including Reddit, Pinterest, Stripe, EPIC Games, and more. Its offering is well-regarded in the space, demonstrated by its naming as a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms report.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2019
$40m
SERIES F
Jul 2018
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $259m
Company benefits
- Parental support and beyond: We support our families by offering generous time off for parental leave. And beyond that, we work hard to build a culture that allows for all employees to have the life outside work that they desire year round.
- Health and wellness: Your well-being matters here. Our health plans offer a variety of options, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, mental health resources, and more.
- Invest in your future: We offer 401(k)/retirement plans, employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP), and reimbursements for learning and development programs — so we can support your ongoing growth and success.
- Keep learning and growing: Helping people go further means nurturing their talent. Through annual reimbursements for employee learning activities, regular hangouts and advice from our Senior Staff, talks from industry leaders, and cultural events — we offer tons of opportunities for people to learn. And we’re always looking to grow as a company, too: we collect employee engagement and experience data annually and leverage our Employee Experience Champion Network to understand employee feedback, so we can keep improving.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kip Compton
(CEO)Kip joined the Fastly team in 2024 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2025. Prior to this, he was an SVP of Strategy & Business Development/Networking at Cisco.
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