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Senior Engineering Manager - Containers at Edge
Fastly INC · 🇺🇸 Denver, CO; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 11 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 3 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Fastly INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Senior Product Manager - Serverless” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in CO: $196k–$196k, median $196k. Most were filed at wage level III (100%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Fastly INC
The US Department of Labor certified 11 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 3 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the 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: Aug. 4, 2026 Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Sept. 4, 2026 *Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants. Senior Engineering Manager, Containers at the Edge The Containers at the Edge team is responsible for architecting, deploying, and managing our distributed container infrastructure at the edge in support of customer workloads. As Senior Engineering Manager of the team, you will hire and lead a high-performing engineering team to ensure low latency, high availability, and secure application delivery across a geographically diverse fleet of thousands of resource-constrained nodes. You will foster a culture of technical rigor, operational excellence, and innovation across the entire platform domain, moving beyond single-team execution to driving cross-organizational advancements. While reliability is critical, innovation is key to success -driving strategic improvements, building foundational team processes and software systems that continually evolve.. What You'll Do: • Define the long-term strategic vision and multi-year technical roadmap,ensuring these investments align with Fastly’s overall business • Hire and develop a high-performing team that includes software engineers, principal-level individual contributors and SREs, focusing on organizational structure, talent development, and scaling team capabilities to meet future demand • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders using a product-owner mindset to define clear roadmaps and priorities • Clearly communicate the strategy, progress, and risk profile to executive leadership and technical stakeholders across the company • You will need to leverage deep, related technical experience to succeed in this role, including your own development contributions What We're Looking For: • 4+ years of experience managing Software Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering teams. • 10+ years of related technical experience with distributed systems, CDN, or cloud infrastructure such as container networking, platform ownership, virtualization technology. • Extensive hands-on experience in software development using Go, Rust, or C/C++. • Demonstrated ability to drive a durable technical roadmap and facilitate effective collaboration in cross-functional teams. • Experience building and automating large scale production infrastructure in on-prem environments within a complex and dynamic networking environment. • Extensive hands on experience working in a Linux environment with a solid understanding of system internals and performance optimization. We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these: • Experience participating in open source communities or standards bodies • Experience transforming production enterprise scale environment to new technologies • Experience adopting or operating in high compliance production environments Work Hours: • This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support any on-call coverage. Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: The preferred locations for this position are: • San Franci