Manager - Customer Solutions Engineering

Manager - Customer Solutions Engineering

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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Manager - Customer Solutions Engineering

Fastly is looking for an exceptional customer-centric leader to manage a team of Cloud Engineers. Fastly's Cloud Engineers are the named technical contact for our largest and most complex customers, providing technical strategy and Fastly insight for mutual alignment.

As Manager, Customer Solutions Engineering, this role is responsible for providing effective leadership across the team to ensure customer growth and retention through ongoing engagement and high value deliverables on designated accounts. Key activities include driving internal alignment to ensure a high quality customer experience, measuring technical and performance results, assisting with customer meetings and escalations, providing feedback and coaching to develop the team, and creating operational plans to scale team impact.

What you'll do

• Lead a team of highly-technical customer engineers ensuring overall customer success
• Develop strategic direction and execute on key objectives for Customer Solutions Engineering
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in Client Services, Sales, Product and Engineering.
• Champion customer asks internally, including escalations, risks, new opportunities, and technical requirements for maintaining and growing customer relationships.
• Maintain and create new team workflows, SLAs, and processes to efficiently handle customer needs.

What we're looking for

• 8 + years Pre-Sales or Post-Sales experience in Sales Engineering, Web Development, Customer facing DevOps Engineer, Technical Account Management, Solutions Architect
• 2+ years of relevant experience leading people associated with technical management of client relationships
• Demonstrated experience and success in handling client relationships either on a primary or secondary basis
• Exceptional communication skills, detail-oriented, and self-motivated leader with strong analytical skills.
• Broad technical expertise including cloud and internet architecture, as well as scripting/software development experience
• Ability to embrace change while maintaining focus on results and customer experience
• Capable and willing to travel for customer meetings as necessary

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Location & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following office location:

• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York, NY

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. We do not support relocation.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $142,630 to $201,348.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly's equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we're not 'one size fits all'. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We're always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

All job applications must be submitted through our official careers site at We will never request sensitive information, such as your Social Security number, bank account or credit card information during the application process. All official communication will come from an @ fastly.com or @ recruiting.fastly.com email address.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

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