Vice President of Engineering, Fastly
Compute and Ecosystem
$296.5-370.7k
Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$296.5-370.7k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date: March 30th, 2025
- Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants
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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