Staff Technical Product Manager, Runtimes

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p> <p>We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.</p></div><p>Posting Open Date: Jul 22, 2026</p> <p>Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Aug 21, 2026</p> <p><em>*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><strong>Staff Technical Product Manager, Runtimes</strong></strong></p> <p>The internet is being reshaped by AI, automation, and machine traffic. One of the defining infrastructure questions of the next decade is how and where code runs. This role owns Fastly's answer.</p> <p>As a Staff Technical Product Manager on Fastly's Core Infrastructure Product Management team, you will manage Compute and VCL as a single, coherent runtime surface. These are how customers execute code close to their users, origins, APIs, and security enforcement points. You will define where these runtimes converge, where they stay purpose-built, and what primitives they share, turning a set of powerful execution models into one platform customers can understand, adopt, and trust for production workloads. This role reports to the Director of Core Infrastructure Product Management and has real latitude to set the runtime direction of the platform.</p> <p>We're looking for someone who pairs a builder's bias for shipping with the judgment to take strong, well-reasoned positions on the runtime future of Fastly.</p> <p><br><strong><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></strong></p> <ul> <li> <p>Own the runtime surface end-to-end: define and drive the strategy and roadmap for Fastly's runtimes, including Compute and VCL. Define where they converge, where they remain purpose-built, and what primitives they should share. You will own runtime and interoperability strategy and reduce duplicated abstractions so the platform feels like one.</p> </li> <li> <p>Scale Compute for demanding workloads: enhance Compute as a runtime and platform surface – the primitives, predictable limits, and reliability customers depend on as they run larger and more critical workloads. Keep the runtime behaving as intended under real-world conditions.</p> </li&g