Release Engineering Manager

Fastly

full-time

Posted on: 9/28/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • California, Colorado, New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $195,750 - $234,864 per year

SeniorLead

ChefDistributed SystemsGoJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPrometheusRustSplunk

About the role

Manage a distributed, on-call SRE engineering team building and supporting automated release tooling and services with Go, Javascript, and Rust.
Support and mitigate operational toil related to release engineering on Linux-based infrastructure.
Act as a teacher and coach; provide technical mentorship and be a force multiplier to software development velocity.
Provide regular feedback to engineers to ensure their professional growth.
Define and prioritize features, new projects, and research activities into regular releases; coordinate turning user requirements into coherent designs.
Partner with engineering teams to build scalable tools and infrastructure to release software that is reliable, safe, sustainable, and secure.
Clearly communicate upward and outward to set expectations for roadmaps and deliverables with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Evolve practices around software deployment processes and release quality.
Expand platform release tooling with a goal of automation and self-service for engineering partners.
Troubleshoot Linux hosts and write software that powers self-service tooling.

Significant related technical experience as a Platform or Site Reliability Engineering engineer working with low level distributed systems and infrastructure as code (most Engineering Managers at Fastly have at least 8 years of related hands-on experience).
At least 3 years of technical leadership or team lead experience.
Experience with Linux, Git, Jenkins, Chef, Prometheus, and Splunk.
Experience with Go and/or Rust and Javascript.
Experience with Kubernetes and configuration management tools like Chef.
Proven experience leading and guiding teams through multi-month, multi-team projects from inception to successful delivery and widespread adoption.
Experience in strategic planning and roadmapping for technical initiatives.
Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams and stakeholders to understand tooling needs and align on release strategies.
Significant experience with and a preference for working with globally distributed teams.
Pragmatic, meticulous, and empathetic leader who fosters collaboration and provides technical mentorship.
Availability during core US Eastern time zone business hours and occasional nights and weekends as needed for on-call escalation.

Benefits

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).
Flexible Vacation policy.
Up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave.
401(k) (including company match).
Employee Stock Purchase Program.
Eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.
11 paid local holidays and 11 paid company wellness days.
Week-long in-person new hire orientation in San Francisco.
Largely hybrid work model with flexibility to split time between the office and home.