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Posting Open Date: Sept. 22, 2025
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Sept. 23, 2025
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Senior Manager, Engineering - Infrastructure Automation
Does the idea of turning thousands of blank, powered‑off servers into fully configured, production‑ready machines with a single, deterministic pipeline sound like your kind of challenge? We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Infrastructure Automation team, owning everything from “cold silicon” power‑on to Chef convergence at fleet scale. You’ll shape the vision, mentor a team of sharp developers and scale the organization. You’ll set a deeply technical direction with a focus on building the tooling, APIs, and observability that make site bring‑up as effortless and repeatable as a git push, unlocking rapid deployments at scale.
What You'll Do:
- Define and drive the multi-year architecture roadmap for fully automated bring-up of new hardware platforms and PoPs for deterministic, end‑to‑end provisioning automation across all existing and new hardware platforms
- Lead and mentor senior engineers and managers, creating an org that excels in systems design, operational reliability, and rapid iteration
- Deliver and operate scalable tooling, APIs, and dashboards that make bulk site bring‑ups self‑service, idempotent, and fully traceable
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with Operations (DC & Net), Hardware, and Security to align firmware, OS, and config‑management workflows with fleet‑wide SLAs; also while iterating POP design, and using that expertise to influence organizational strategy and architecture at scale
- Own success metrics (e.g. first‑pass yield & error‑recovery time) and drive continuous improvement through data‑driven retrospectives and translate into roadmap updates
What We're Looking For:
- 10+ years hands‑on systems or infrastructure engineering (Go, Python, Rust, or similar) building automation for bare‑metal provisioning, OS imaging, and configuration management at fleet scale.
- 5+ years in engineering leadership roles including managing other managers or tech leads.
- Demonstrated ability to scale complex provisioning / automation platforms across thousands of servers or devices.
- Deep expertise in boot & hardware pipelines—PXE/UEFI HTTP, BMC / Redfish, secure boot, firmware flashing, and tools like Chef or Ansible and experience making high-leverage architectural decisions at org scale.
- Proven technical leadership of teams and mission‑critical projects (mentoring, driving design reviews, owning roadmaps), not just delivery execution.
- Strong cross‑functional collaboration and executive communication skills, able to align long-term technical strategy with business goals.
We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:
- Experience leading teams that engineered UEFI / USB boot-shims that stream a Live OS over an out-of-band channel (Redfish virtual media, HTTPBoot, iPXE) to provide zero-touch diagnostics, patching, or full re-image; turning fleet-wide emergency recovery into a single pipeline run.
- Leveraged that expertise to set architectural direction at scale.
Work Hours:
- This position will require you to be available during core business hours. You will also be on-call during evenings and weekends as an escalation point in team on-call rotation.
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:
This position is open to the following preferred location:
- British Columbia, Canada
Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.
This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
Salary:
The estimated salary range for this position is CA$201,343 to $241,611.00.
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 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.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.
Why Fastly?
We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside 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. Fastly’s 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 we’re 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.
We’re 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.
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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