Backed by CRV.
About the role
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.
What they're looking for
- Experience: 8+ years in product management or technical product leadership, ideally on infrastructure, platform, or developer-facing products
- 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
- Conviction and influence: a proven ability to form strong technical opinions, defend them with evidence, and lead without authority, including pushing back constructively. You are a force multiplier who raises the technical bar around you
- Communication and presence: a clear, confident communicator who can move fluidly between deep technical discussion with engineers and crisp strategic framing for executives and customers
- Customer empathy: genuine curiosity about the "why" behind customer problems, and the ability to translate runtime capabilities into developer productivity and business value
- Startup or 0-to-1 experience building and shipping technical products in resource-constrained environments
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.
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Posting Open Date: Jul 22, 2026
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Aug 21, 2026
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Staff Technical Product Manager, Runtimes
The internet is being reshaped by AI, automation, and machine traffic. One of the defining infrastructure questions of the next decade is how and where code runs. This role owns Fastly's answer.
As a Staff Technical Product Manager on Fastly's Core Infrastructure Product Management team, you will manage Compute and VCL as a single, coherent runtime surface. These are how customers...
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