Staff Technical Product Manager, Runtimes

Fastly is a company that helps people stay better connected with the things they love through its edge cloud platform. The Staff Technical Product Manager will manage Compute and VCL as a coherent runtime surface, defining the strategy and roadmap for Fastly's runtimes while ensuring they meet the evolving needs of AI workloads and machine traffic.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Scale Compute for demanding workloads: enhance Compute as a runtime and platform surface – the primitives, predictable limits, and reliability customers depend on as they run larger and more critical workloads. Keep the runtime behaving as intended under real-world conditions
• Expand the runtime surface: bring new execution models onto Fastly as native runtime workloads, defining how they run on the platform and fit alongside Compute and VCL
• Define how runtimes meet the AI era: AI workloads, machine traffic, and new execution patterns are changing what customers need from a runtime platform. You will get ahead of that shift, building the primitives and controls customers will need before they know to ask for them
• Take and defend strong positions: bring clear, evidence-based points of view on runtime direction and drive them to a decision across Engineering, Product, and leadership. You will build alignment without relying on authority
• Execute across boundaries: partner closely with the Core Infrastructure technical lead on runtime direction, with go-to-market functions so customers can adopt what you build, and with the hybrid/on-prem team where runtimes extend into customer-controlled environments. You will bring structure to ambiguous problems and move decisions forward earlier

Requirements:

• 8+ years in product management or technical product leadership, ideally on infrastructure, platform, or developer-facing products
• Deep understanding of execution environments, including runtimes, containers, isolation models, serverless or edge compute, and the trade-offs between them
• Demonstrated bias for shipping
• Proven ability to form strong technical opinions, defend them with evidence, and lead without authority
• Clear, confident communicator who can move fluidly between deep technical discussion with engineers and crisp strategic framing for executives and customers
• 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
• A hands-on background with runtime and isolation technology, including container platforms, the WebAssembly component model and WASI 0.3, Firecracker or comparable microVM and sandboxing stacks, or similar execution engines
• Experience with edge compute, developer platforms, or runtime interoperability at scale