Senior Engineering Manager - Storage

Overview

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 Git Hub, Yelp, Paramount, and Jet Blue. We’re building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Posting Open Date:
Feb 3, 2026 | Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Feb 20, 2026

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

Fastly’s Storage team builds and maintains the core data platforms for Fastly's Compute and Delivery Platforms, including products like KV Store, Object Storage, Secret Store, and global real-time data pipelines. This manager role will lead a team focused on providing customers with lightning-fast access to their data and critical observability tools. You will nurture a highly talented team, driving technical direction, and building collaborative roadmaps to meet the scalability challenges of sustained company growth.

While you won’t be hands-on in the code base, this role will require you to leverage a strong technical background in related distributed systems.

What You''ll Do

• Manage, mentor, and support a thriving, collaborative, distributed engineering team
• Ensure collaborative cross-functional roadmap planning and maintain close partnerships across engineering, product, and other stakeholders
• Drive technical direction, providing context to technical conversations that lead to clear goals and prioritization
• Create just enough process to enable effective cross-functional planning, communication, and risk mitigation
• Recruit and hire software engineers, and provide regular feedback and career development opportunities to the team
• Clearly communicate upward and outward to set and adjust expectations for roadmaps and deliverables

• 10+ years of domain relevant software engineering experience - i.e. backend & large scale distributed systems with expertise in modern programming languages and tooling.
• 2+ years leading distributed systems engineering teams & managing engineers at all career levels
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed platforms
• Strong product and business orientation, with the ability to connect technical investments to business outcomes
• Experience fostering inclusive, collaborative, and high-accountability engineering cultures
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills

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

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

This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as needed to support team members in other time zones and as the escalation point for on-call incidents.

The preferred locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• New York, 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. 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.

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