Posting Open Date: January 27th, 2025

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: March 30th, 2025

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

Vice President of Engineering, Compute and Ecosystem

SF, Denver, NYC or Remote US

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. The Fastly 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.

At Fastly, our technology and expertise spans from front-end web development down through the Linux kernel. Fastly’s edge cloud platform offers many innovative developer oriented products. 

We are looking for a VPE to lead the teams of highly skilled engineers that work on many of our developer offerings, such as our innovative edge Compute environment, the languages and compilers for edge compute, edge state data stores, observability products, developer experience, and generally growing the capabilities, scalability, and resilience of the platform.

In particular, Fastly’s Compute product is enabling customers to develop highly performant and secure edge applications, while using tools and languages they’re comfortable with. At the core of our technology is WebAssembly, and we are committed to its open development through the Bytecode Alliance.

You’ll work closely with other teams in product management and engineering to deliver high velocity H2 products that enable our customers to build online experiences that are fast, safe, and engaging.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the engineering teams responsible for Fastly’s edge computing platform and other new products

• Partner with product management and program management to prioritize and plan the overall edge compute strategy and plan

• Guide the design and implementation of an efficient, resilient platform

• Collaborate with peers working on UI/UX, Customer Success, and Operations, among others, to grow the platform

• Mentor and provide regular feedback to engineers in the team on design, architecture, development, quality, and career development

• Recruit and hire software engineers and managers as needed

• Stay close to the systems and code the team is producing

• Establish continuous improvement with the teams to drive both safety and speed

• Deliver tools and documentation to engineers on other teams, and training and supporting them as they use those tools to improve their own projects.

What We’re Looking For

• Startup/founder mindset - you take ownership and enjoy building and growing new products 

• Experience with product-market-fit journey

• Strategic systems thinking

• Ability to lead a distributed team effectively

• Ability to guide, cultivate, and support a strong engineering culture

• Experience guiding teams to craft high quality, maintainable code with a high level of rigor

• Excellence in collaboration and communication with both technical and non-technical partners

• Engineering management experience or experience leading teams of senior engineers

• Empathy for the users of tools and systems produced by your teams

• Capable of crafting metrics, iterating on measurement, and motivating change

• High emotional intelligence

We value a variety of voices and experience, so this is not a laundry list. You’ll be a good candidate if you have experience working on SOME of these:

• Products for developers and/or enterprise software

• A software product through first release to scale

• Software with high availability requirements

• High performance, large scale, or global multi-tenant systems

• Software platforms (e.g. operating systems, browsers, compilers, game platforms)

• Rust, or some of the languages that influenced the design of Rust

Work Hours

This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

Work Location & Travel Requirements

This position is open to the following preferred locations:

• San Francisco

• Denver

• New York 

• Remote (US)

Fastly uses a hybrid or remote model. Hybrid employees (within commute distance of an office) typically work in the office 2-4 days a week.

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement

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 $296,544 to $370,680.

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), an open 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 2023, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.