Staff Technical Product Manager, Runtimes

Company Overview

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s 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. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.

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What You'll Do

• Own the runtime surface end-to-end: define and drive the strategy and roadmap for Fastly's 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 We're Looking For

• Experience: 8+ years in product management or technical product leadership, ideally on infrastructure, platform, o