Senior Engineering Manager - Developer Experience

Fastly

Summary

This job involves leading a team of engineers to build systems that execute WebAssembly workloads, focusing on coaching, mentoring, and fostering engineering best practices within a distributed team.

What you'll do

Manage a team of mid to senior level engineers
Ensure that team members are growing in their career via coaching, mentoring and continual feedback
Play an active role in internal and cross functional planning, technical sequencing and prioritization
Build a deep understanding of both the core software systems the team owns, and the systems they integrate with
Join in technical discussions and represent their impacts to the rest of the business
Enable the team to solve for today’s problems pragmatically and without hacks
Retain a keen focus on efficiency and reliability
Play an active and collaborative role across Engineering, Product and Customer support
Outline functional requirements and establish critical development milestones. Contextualize and help prioritize work for the team while creating outlets for team innovation and engineering influence
Align the teams Compute quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules with constituents across the organization to minimize conflict and ensure consistent, timely, and high quality delivery

Requirements

You have a minimum of 12 years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 of those in a direct management role
Proven success building high performance distributed systems and teams.
Proven success supporting a strong service ownership culture
Proven success in cross functional collaboration, communication and technical decision making
Comfort working with the technologies we use (Rust, JavaScript, Go, WebAssembly, network protocols and caching concepts)