Sr. Engineering Manager

Sr. Engineering Manager - Control Systems

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Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.
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Posting Open Date: June 30, 2025
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: July 28, 2025

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

Senior Engineering Manager, Control Systems
As part of the Core Systems Engineering organization, this leader will support a seasoned backend team focused on customer configuration management and propagation to the edge. Since the services this team supports are central to Fastly’s customer configuration support, this will involve working with numerous internal Fastly teams to support critical business initiatives.
You will cultivate an inclusive and cohesive team environment that enables your team to grow and do their best work. You will manage team dependencies, build roadmaps, and work with your team to define clear goals. You will interface with multiple stakeholders including security partners, hardware teams, support teams, and product management to prioritize the most impactful work for your engineers.
What You’ll Do

• Manage a collaborative, distributed engineering team
• Provide mentorship and career development opportunities for your team members
• Balance the tradeoffs in technical approaches to prioritize both scalability and customer stability
• Provide context to technical conversations that drives clear goals and prioritization
• Build and maintain close partnerships with stakeholders that enable your team to deliver effectively
• Clearly communicate upward and outward to set and adjust expectations with your partners
  

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience in a relevant technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software for back-end or systems software
• 4+ years experience leading teams that design, build, scale and maintain distributed systems
• Proven success leading and building cohesive teams that execute effectively within a distributed environment
• Ability to simultaneously advocate for business goals, customer value, and developer happiness
• Proven success managing complex technical projects with various interdependencies
• Flexibility in working both within and outside of agile, with the goal of planning and executing project deliveries effectively
• Effective communication skills for working across the organization, including the ability to build positive relationships with peers and leadership
• Track record leveraging metrics to set goals and measure success of teams and tier 0 systems
  

Work Hours
This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as needed for on-call escalation..
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:
This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• Denver, CO
• San Francisco, CA
• New York, NY
  

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. We are not currently considering remote candidates for this position.
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Salary
The estimated salary range for this position is $211,370 to $253,644
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 2025, we offer 11 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 or 501-287-4901.
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