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 GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue. We’re building a more trustworthy Internet.

Senior Engineering

Manager, Containers at the Edge The Containers at the Edge team is responsible for architecting, deploying, and managing our distributed container infrastructure at the edge in support of customer workloads.

As Senior Engineering

Manager of the team, you will hire and lead a high-performing engineering team to ensure low latency, high availability, and secure application delivery across a geographically diverse fleet of thousands of resource-constrained nodes. You will foster a culture of technical rigor, operational excellence, and innovation across the entire platform domain, moving beyond single-team execution to driving cross-organizational advancements. While reliability is critical, innovation is key to success -driving strategic improvements, building foundational team processes and software systems that continually evolve.

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 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 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 energetic networking environment. ~ Extensive hands on experience working in a Linux environment with a solid understanding of system internals and performance optimization. We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these: Experience participating in open source communities or standards bodies This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support any on-call coverage. Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However,



we may be willing to consider exceptionally qualified remote candidates within the US. This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

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

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. For 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.

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 value diversity.

Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. 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.

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📌 Senior Engineering Manager - Containers at Edge (Northumberland County)
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📍 Northumberland County