Backed by CRV.
About the role
APIs are how software talks to software, and the volume and variety of that traffic is growing rapidly. AI agents now discover and call APIs directly, and MCP servers are a new kind of endpoint with the same questions attached: what exists, what it's supposed to do, and who is allowed to call it. Enterprises are challenged to respond to those questions. This role owns Fastly's answer.
What they're looking for
- Experience: 5+ years in product management or technical product leadership, ideally on API, security, or platform infrastructure products
- Platform thinking: a track record of building capabilities that serve more than one product or team. Shared primitives, enforcement points, or controls others build on, rather than features scoped to a single surface
- Execution focus: a demonstrated bias for shipping. You are hands-on and comfortable owning outcomes in ambiguous, fast-moving conditions rather than waiting for perfect clarity
- Hands-on work with API gateways and OpenAPI-driven validation: schema generation from live traffic, drift detection as APIs change, and the gap between the spec a team publishes and what their API actually does
- The agentic traffic stack — workload and agent identity (SPIFFE/WIMSE, mTLS), OAuth 2.1 for delegated agent authorization, and agent protocols like MCP and its authorization spec
- Request-path enforcement at scale: WASM filters, eBPF, or policy engines like OPA and Rego
More about this role
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.
We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
Posting Open Date: Sep 21st, 2026
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Nov 30, 2026
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Senior Technical Product Manager, API Traffic and Enforcement
APIs are how software talks to software, and the volume and variety of that traffic is growing rapidly. AI agents now discover and call APIs directly, and MCP servers are a new kind of endpoint with the same questions attached: what exists, what it's supposed to do, and who is allowed to call it. Enterprises are challenged to respond to those questions. This role...
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