Senior Engineering Manager - Developer Experience

Fastly’s Compute Platform is the ultimate flexible edge-compute platform. Our unique serverless platform scales workloads globally, without our customers lifting a single finger to manage their edge infrastructure. In partnership with the WebAssembly community, we’re developing new ecosystem capabilities and expanding first-class programming language and tooling support for Fastly’s Compute Platform.

We are looking for a passionate and innovative Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for building the systems that executes WebAssembly workloads. You will bring your passion for cultivating engineering best practices to support a distributed team of talented people.

What You'll Do:

• Manage a team of mid to senior level engineers
• Ensure that team members are growing in their career via coaching, mentoring and continual feedback
• Play an active role in internal and cross functional planning, technical sequencing and prioritization
• Build a deep understanding of both the core software systems the team owns, and the systems they integrate with.
• Join in technical discussions and represent their impacts to the rest of the business
• Enable the team to solve for today’s problems pragmatically and without hacks
• Retain a keen focus on efficiency and reliability. 
• Play an active and collaborative role across Engineering, Product and Customer support
• Outline functional requirements and establish critical development milestones. Contextualize and help prioritize work for the team while creating outlets for team innovation and engineering influence.
• Align the teams Compute quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules with constituents across the organization to minimize conflict and ensure consistent, timely, and high quality delivery.

What We're Looking For: 

• You have a minimum of 12 years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 of those in a direct management role
• Proven success building high performance distributed systems and teams.
• Proven success supporting a strong service ownership culture
• Proven success in cross functional collaboration, communication and technical decision making
• Comfort working with the technologies we use (Rust, JavaScript, Go, WebAssembly, network protocols and caching concepts)

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these: 

• Our software systems integrate tightly with wasmtime and other technology being developed in partnership with the broader WebAssembly ecosystem. This is not required prior experience, but you will become very familiar with these technologies at Fastly.

Work Hours: 

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours, and as an escalation point in on-call rotations.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: 

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco
• New York City
• Denver

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720 to $244,640. 

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits: 

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2024, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.