Senior Engineering Manager Infrastructure Automation

Vancouver - Canada

Monthly Salary: $ 201343 - 241611

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastlys 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. Fastlys customers include many of the worlds most prominent companies including Vimeo Pinterest The New York Times and GitHub.

Were building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Posting Open Date: Sept. 22 2025

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Sept. 23 2025

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

Senior Manager Engineering - Infrastructure Automation

Does the idea of turning thousands of blank poweredoff servers into fully configured productionready machines with a single deterministic pipeline sound like your kind of challenge Were looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Infrastructure Automation team owning everything from cold silicon poweron to Chef convergence at fleet scale. Youll shape the vision mentor a team of sharp developers and scale the organization. Youll set a deeply technical direction with a focus on building the tooling APIs and observability that make site bringup as effortless and repeatable as a git push unlocking rapid deployments at scale.

What Youll Do:

Define and drive the multi-year architecture roadmap for fully automated bring-up of new hardware platforms and PoPs for deterministic endtoend provisioning automation across all existing and new hardware platforms
Lead and mentor senior engineers and managers creating an org that excels in systems design operational reliability and rapid iteration
Deliver and operate scalable tooling APIs and dashboards that make bulk site bringups selfservice idempotent and fully traceable
Collaborate crossfunctionally with Operations (DC & Net) Hardware and Security to align firmware OS and configmanagement workflows with fleetwide SLAs; also while iterating POP design and using that expertise to influence organizational strategy and architecture at scale
Own success metrics (e.g. firstpass yield & errorrecovery time) and drive continuous improvement through datadriven retrospectives and translate into roadmap updates

What Were Looking For:

10 years handson systems or infrastructure engineering (Go Python Rust or similar) building automation for baremetal provisioning OS imaging and configuration management at fleet scale.
5 years in engineering leadership roles including managing other managers or tech leads.
Demonstrated ability to scale complex provisioning / automation platforms across thousands of servers or devices.
Deep expertise in boot & hardware pipelinesPXE/UEFI HTTP BMC / Redfish secure boot firmware flashing and tools like Chef or Ansible and experience making high-leverage architectural decisions at org scale.
Proven technical leadership of teams and missioncritical projects (mentoring driving design reviews owning roadmaps) not just delivery execution.
Strong crossfunctional collaboration and executive communication skills able to align long-term technical strategy with business goals.

Well be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

Experience leading teams that engineered 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.
Leveraged that expertise to set architectural direction at scale.

Work Hours:

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

British Columbia Canada

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

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

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is CA$201343 to $241611.00.

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 Fastlys 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.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.

Why Fastly

We have a huge impact.Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only doour customershave a tremendous user base but we also support a growing number of open source projects and of code employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
We love distributed teams. Fastlys home-base is in San Francisco but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly participate in hands-on learning opportunities and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.
We value diversity.Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
We are passionate.Fastly is chock full of passionate people and were not one size fits all. Fastly employs authors pilots skiers parents (of humans and animals) makeup geeks coffee connoisseurs and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

Were always looking for humble sharp and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin family or parental status physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances.

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Required Experience:

Manager