Engineering Manager - Infrastructure Automation (Hardware)

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: May 2, 2025

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: May 27, 2025

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

Engineering Manager - Infrastructure Automation (Hardware)

Does the idea of turning thousands of blank, powered‑off servers into fully configured, production‑ready machines with a single, deterministic pipeline sound like your kind of challenge? We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Infrastructure Automation team—owning everything from “cold silicon” power‑on to Chef convergence at fleet scale. You’ll shape the vision, mentor a team of sharp developers, and build the tooling, APIs, and observability that make site bring‑up as effortless and repeatable as a git push, unlocking rapid deployments at scale.

What You'll Do:

• Own the technical roadmap for deterministic, end‑to‑end provisioning automation across all existing and new hardware platforms
• Build and mentor a high‑performing team of software and infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of reliability, observability, and rapid iteration
• Deliver and operate scalable tooling, APIs, and dashboards that make bulk site bring‑ups self‑service, idempotent, and fully traceable
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Operations (DC & Net), Hardware, and Security to align firmware, OS, and config‑management workflows with fleet‑wide SLAs; also while iterating POP design, and assisting with new hardware selection
• Own success metrics (e.g. first‑pass yield & error‑recovery time) and drive continuous improvement through data‑driven retrospectives and roadmap updates
  

What We're Looking For: 

• 8+ years hands‑on systems or infrastructure engineering (Go, Python, Rust, or similar) building automation for bare‑metal provisioning, OS imaging, and configuration management at fleet scale.
• Deep expertise in boot & hardware pipelines—PXE/UEFI HTTP, BMC / Redfish, secure boot, firmware flashing, and tools like Chef or Ansible.
• Proven technical leadership of teams or mission‑critical projects (mentoring, driving design reviews, owning roadmaps), even without a formal manager title.
• Strong cross‑functional collaboration and communication skills, translating fleet KPIs into clear priorities for key stakeholders.

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these: 

• Hands on experience engineering UEFI / USB boot-shims that stream a Live OS over an out-of-band channel (Redfish virtual media, HTTPBoot, iPXE) to provide zero-touch diagnostics, patching, or full re-image; turning fleet-wide emergency recovery into a single pipeline run.

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours in the Eastern Time Zone. You will also be on-call during evenings and weekends as an escalation point in team on-call rotation.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

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

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 the New York, NY office.  We are not considering remote candidates at this time.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

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 $195,750 to $234,864. 

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.