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Senior Engineering Manager

Fastly5 days ago
Vancouver
CA$144,430 - CA$173,316/yearly
Senior Level

Top Benefits

Competitive PTO policies
Remote or hybrid work
Generous parental leave

About the role

Who you are

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

What the job involves

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

The application process

  • Anticipated Posting Close Date Sept. 23, 2025
  • Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants

Benefits

  • Competitive PTO Policies
  • Remote or Hybrid Work
  • Generous time off for parental leave
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Mental health resources
  • 401(k)/retirement plans
  • Employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP)
  • Reimbursements for learning and development programs

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