Vice President of Engineering, Fastly

• 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

Desirable

• We are looking for a VPE to lead the teams of highly skilled engineers that work on many of our developer offerings, such as our innovative edge Compute environment, the languages and compilers for edge compute, edge state data stores, observability products, developer experience, and generally growing the capabilities, scalability, and resilience of the platform
• In particular, Fastly’s Compute product is enabling customers to develop highly performant and secure edge applications, while using tools and languages they’re comfortable with. At the core of our technology is WebAssembly, and we are committed to its open development through the Bytecode Alliance
• You’ll work closely with other teams in product management and engineering to deliver high velocity H2 products that enable our customers to build online experiences that are fast, safe, and engaging
• 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
• This position will require you to be available during core business hours

• Anticipated Posting Close Date*: March 30th, 2025