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Posting Open Date: 7/24/24

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 8/24/24

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

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 our community building engine (Glitch) and the developer tools our customers use when deploying software to the Fastly platform.

What You'll Do:

• Manage, coach and mentor a team of mid to senior level engineers
• 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
• 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, CA
• New York City, NY
• Denver, CO

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

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720 to $244,645. 

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. 

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

• We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly, participate in hands-on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand. 

• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.

• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901. 

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