Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. The Senior Engineering Manager for Containers at the Edge will lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for managing distributed container infrastructure, ensuring low latency and high availability for customer workloads.
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term strategic vision and multi-year technical roadmap,ensuring these investments align with Fastly’s overall business
- Hire and develop a high-performing team that includes software engineers, principal-level individual contributors and SREs, focusing on organizational structure, talent development, and scaling team capabilities to meet future demand
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders using a product-owner mindset to define clear roadmaps and priorities
- Clearly communicate the strategy, progress, and risk profile to executive leadership and technical stakeholders across the company
- You will need to leverage deep, related technical experience to succeed in this role, including your own development contributions
Skills
- 4+ years of experience managing Software Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering teams
- 10+ years of related technical experience with distributed systems, CDN, or cloud infrastructure such as container networking, platform ownership, virtualization technology
- Extensive hands-on experience in software development using Go, Rust, or C/C++
- Demonstrated ability to drive a durable technical roadmap and facilitate effective collaboration in cross-functional teams
- Experience building and automating large scale production infrastructure in on-prem environments within a complex and dynamic networking environment
- Extensive hands on experience working in a Linux environment with a solid understanding of system internals and performance optimization
- Experience participating in open source communities or standards bodies
- Experience transforming production enterprise scale environment to new technologies
- Experience adopting or operating in high compliance production environments
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Family planning
- Mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program
- Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
- Flexible Vacation policy
- Up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
- 401(k) (including company match)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- For 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays
- For 2026, we offer 12 paid company wellness days
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