Senior Engineering Manager, Fastly
Storage
$228.3-273.9k
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Edge cloud platform
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Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$228.3-273.9k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of domain relevant software engineering experience - i.e. backend & large scale distributed systems with expertise in modern programming languages and tooling
- 2+ years leading distributed systems engineering teams & managing engineers at all career levels
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed platforms
- Strong product and business orientation, with the ability to connect technical investments to business outcomes
- Experience fostering inclusive, collaborative, and high-accountability engineering cultures
- Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills
Desirable
- Having built or run large-scale storage systems and real-time logging pipelines
- A deep understanding of distributed databases and the trade-offs involved
- Building developer tooling, including ergonomic SDK design that integrates cleanly into developer workflows
- Experience with network protocols and caching concepts
- Exposure to WebAssembly
What the job involves
- Fastly’s Storage team builds and maintains the core data platforms for Fastly's Compute and Delivery Platforms, including products like KV Store, Object Storage, Secret Store, and global real-time data pipelines
- This manager role will lead a team focused on providing customers with lightning-fast access to their data and critical observability tools
- You will nurture a highly talented team, driving technical direction, and building collaborative roadmaps to meet the scalability challenges of sustained company growth
- While you won’t be hands-on in the code base, this role will require you to leverage a strong technical background in related distributed systems
- Manage, mentor, and support a thriving, collaborative, distributed engineering team
- Ensure collaborative cross-functional roadmap planning and maintain close partnerships across engineering, product, and other stakeholders
- Drive technical direction, providing context to technical conversations that lead to clear goals and prioritization
- Create just enough process to enable effective cross-functional planning, communication, and risk mitigation
- Recruit and hire software engineers, and provide regular feedback and career development opportunities to the team
- Clearly communicate upward and outward to set and adjust expectations for roadmaps and deliverables
- This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as needed to support team members in other time zones and as the escalation point for on-call incidents
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Feb 20, 2026
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 the companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users — improving the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands, and enabling clients to focus on growing their businesses.
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 it being named a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023 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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