Senior Engineering Manager Storage

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 228280 - 273936

Posted on: Yesterday

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 GitHub Yelp Paramount and JetBlue.

Were 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.

Sr. Manager Engineering - Storage

Fastlys Storage team builds and maintains the core data platforms for Fastlys 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 wont be hands-on in the code base this role will require you to leverage a strong technical background in related distributed systems.

What Youll 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

What Were Looking For:

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

Well 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 WebAssembly

Work Hours:

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.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

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.

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 $228280 to $273936.

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. 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 2026 we offer 11 paid local holidays 12 paid company wellness days.

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.

All job applications must be submitted through our official careers site at We will never request sensitive information such as your Social Security number bank account or credit card information during the application process. All official communication will come from an @ or @ email address.

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