Senior Engineering Manager - WebAssembly Team (Remote)

Posting Open Date: 11/1/24

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 11/29/24

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

Senior Engineering Manager - WebAssembly

The WebAssembly team is focused on the technology that powers Fastly’s Compute platform, which is an advanced serverless platform built on open standards that runs code, in any preferred  language, on our global edge network. It’s designed to address the requirements of modern application development by empowering customers to run code in a highly secure execution environment with microsecond cold start times, at scale, on the edge.

If you are a seasoned Engineering Leader and active member of open source runtime communities, this just may be your dream job! This team works with Bytecode Alliance on WebAssembly, as well as several other open source communities. 

What You'll Do:

• Lead a team of very senior and very talented developers who are truly experts in this field
• Work closely across Fastly’s engineering teams to facilitate effective communication and roadmapping

What We're Looking For: 

• You have a minimum of 12 years of engineering experience with at least 5 of those in a direct management role
• You are familiar with runtimes (such as V8,  SpiderMonkey, CoreCLR, or others), either low-level systems implementation or performance optimization
• You have experience with engineering for scalability
• You have experience with active Open Source communities

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

• Programming language design or implementation
• You have experience with compiler development
• You have experience with WebAssembly, especially with Wasmtime
• You have extensive experience in leadership positions in active open source communities

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core North American business hours, and available to support the team through incidents that require escalation. 

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: 

This position is a remote role and open to candidates residing in the following locations: USA

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 $211,370 to $250,000.

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.