Senior Engineering Manager, Data Storage

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.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Fastly’s Data Storage team builds storage products like kv store and secret store that power Fastlys Compute Platform. We focus on enabling our customers to build powerful edge applications with lightning fast access to their data. All with a world class developer experience.

Your role will enable and nurture a team of some extremely talented engineers. You will find yourself managing team dependencies, building roadmaps with your team and product partners. You will drive technical direction, review technical implementation alongside your engineering leaders. You enjoy thinking big while making intentional steps toward those big goals. You will be partnering with engineering and product teams from all walks of life and disciplines, all the while cultivating an inclusive and cohesive team environment that enables your engineers to deliver the best software of their lives.

What You'll Do:

• Manage, mentor and support a distributed engineering team
• Ensure collaborative cross functional roadmap planning across engineering and product
• Create just enough process that enables cross functional planning, communication and risk mitigation
• Participate in designing technical solutions with your team and other engineering teams
• Apply your individual contributor experience. You will not be required to actively develop software
• Mentor, grow and provide regular feedback to engineers
• Work with your engineering management peer group to drive broader engineering goals
• Recruit and hire software engineers
• Clearly communicate upward and outward to set expectations for roadmaps and deliverables 

What We're Looking For: 

• You have a total of 12 years of software engineering experience with a minimum of 4 of those years in a direct management role
• Experience building distributed platforms

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

• Building developer tooling, including ergonomic SDK design 
• Building developer tooling that integrates cleanly into developer workflows
• Experience with network protocols and caching concepts
• Exposure to WebAssembly
• Having built or run large scale storage systems
• A deep understanding of distributed databases and the trade offs involved

Work Hours: 

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours, and as an escalation point in on-call rotations.

Work Locations & Travel Requirements: 

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

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

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

Salary: 

The estimated salary range for this position is $195,720 to $244,640. 

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 2024, we offer 10 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