Staff Technical Product Manager, Runtimes

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.

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Posting Open Date: Jul 22 2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Aug 21 2026

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

Staff Technical Product Manager Runtimes

The internet is being reshaped by AI automation and machine traffic. One of the defining infrastructure questions of the next decade is how and where code runs. This role owns Fastlys answer.

As a Staff Technical Product Manager on Fastlys Core Infrastructure Product Management team you will manage Compute and VCL as a single coherent runtime surface. These are how customers execute code close to their users origins APIs and security enforcement points. You will define where these runtimes converge where they stay purpose-built and what primitives they share turning a set of powerful execution models into one platform customers can understand adopt and trust for production workloads. This role reports to the Director of Core Infrastructure Product Management and has real latitude to set the runtime direction of the platform.

Were looking for someone who pairs a builders bias for shipping with the judgment to take strong well-reasoned positions on the runtime future of Fastly.

What Youll Do:

• Own the runtime surface end-to-end: define and drive the strategy and roadmap for Fastlys runtimes including Compute and VCL. Define where they converge where they remain purpose-built and what primitives they should share. You will own runtime and interoperability strategy and reduce duplicated abstractions so the platform feels like one.

• Scale Compute for demanding workloads: enhance Compute as a runtime and platform surface the primitives predictable limits and reliability customers depend on as they run larger and more critical workloads. Keep the runtime behaving as intended under real-world conditions.

• Expand the runtime surface: bring new execution models onto Fastly as native runtime workloads defining how they run on the platform and fit alongside Compute and VCL.

• Define how runtimes meet the AI era: AI workloads machine traffic and new execution patterns are changing what customers need from a runtime platform. You will get ahead of that shift building the primitives and controls customers will need before they know to ask for them.

• Take and defend strong positions: bring clear evidence-based points of view on runtime direction and drive them to a decision across Engineering Product and leadership. You will build alignment without relying on authority.

• Execute across boundaries: partner closely with the Core Infrastructure technical lead on runtime direction with go-to-market functions so customers can adopt what you build and with the hybrid/on-prem team where runtimes extend into customer-controlled environments. You will bring structure to ambiguous problems and move decisions forward earlier.

What Were Looking For:

• Experience: 8 years in product management or technical product leadership ideally on infrastructure platform or developer-facing products.

• Runtime and systems fluency: deep understanding of execution environments including runtimes containers isolation models serverless or edge compute and the trade-offs between them. You can reason credibly about how code executes where the constraints live and why one model beats another for a given workload.

• Execution focus: a demonstrated bias for shipping. You are hands-on and comfortable owning outcomes in ambiguous fast-moving conditions rather than waiting for perfect clarity.

• Conviction and influence: a proven ability to form strong technical opinions defend them with evidence and lead without authority including pushing back constructively. You are a force multiplier who raises the technical bar around you.

• Communication and presence: a clear confident communicator who can move fluidly between deep technical discussion with engineers and crisp strategic framing for executives and customers.

• Customer empathy: genuine curiosity about the why behind customer problems and the ability to translate runtime capabilities into developer productivity and business value.

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

• Startup or 0-to-1 experience building and shipping technical products in resource-constrained environments.

• A hands-on background with runtime and isolation technology including container platforms the WebAssembly component model and WASI 0.3 Firecracker or comparable microVM and sandboxing stacks or similar execution engines.

• Experience with edge compute developer platforms or runtime interoperability at scale.

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

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to Hybrid And Remote Work Locations.

The preferred locations for this position are:

• New York NY
• San Francisco CA
• 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 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 $211370.00 to $253644.00.

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. 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 12 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 ofopen 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 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.

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