Architect, Office of the CTO

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: July 1, 2026

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: July 14, 2026

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Architect, Office of the CTO

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. We’re building a more trustworthy, performant, and secure internet, and we’re looking for a deeply technical, highly collaborative Architect to help shape the future of our platform.

We are looking for an Architect reporting directly to Fastly’s CTO to help shape Fastly’s long-term technical direction and scale Fastly’s ability to make durable architectural decisions. act as a force multiplier across Engineering and Product. In this role, you will help amplify the CTO’s impact across architecture and engineering reviews, product lifecycle decisions, and technical mentorship across the organization. You’ll combine deep, end-to-end technical acumen with the ability to define and communicate a clear, scalable, big-picture technical vision for Fastly.

This is a high-leverage individual contributor role for someone who can drive outcomes organization-wide, influence without authority, and help teams make robust technical decisions that balance customer impact, business needs, and long-term platform strategy.

What You'll Do

Partner with the CTO and SVP of Engineering to shape, communicate, and implement Fastly’s long-term technical direction

Improve the mechanisms Fastly uses to make durable architectural decisions, including review forums, technical principles, standards, and escalation paths in partnership with Engineering Leadership and CTO

Serve as a trusted technical advisor, creating clarity around ambiguous technical problems helping teams make principled tradeoffs and raising the quality of architectural decision-making

Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, helping them grow their scope, judgment, and influence

Represent the CTO’s technical perspective in selected forums, including architecture reviews or product decisions, serving as his delegate

Support strategic customer, partner, and executive conversations where deep technical credibility and long-term platform context are required

Identify emerging technologies and architectural opportunities that could improve Fastly’s customer experience, competitive position, or operating model

Evangelize Fastly externally; speak at conferences, contribute to open source and participate in industry standards bodies

What We're Looking For

Extensive experience as an Architect, Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, Fellow, or equivalent senior technical leader

Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, edge computing, CDN, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, or related platform technologies

Demonstrated ability to set technical vision and translate it into practical architecture, standards, and execution paths

Strong judgment across technical, operational, product, customer, and business tradeoffs

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to any audience

A track record of mentoring senior technical talent and helping others increase their impact

Ability to influence across teams and functions without relying on formal authority

Track record of simplifying complex systems and helping organizations converge on durable technical direction

Ability to challenge constructively, build alignment, and lead through influence at the most senior levels of an engineering organization

Work Hours:

This position will require you to be available during core business hours. It may also require occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support any on-call coverage or escalations.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position has one opening and can be hired in the following preferred office locations:

San Francisco, CA

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $329,493 to 411,867.

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 www.fastly.com/about/careers. 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.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at [email protected] or 501-287-4901.

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