The posting
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: Sep 28, 2026
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Oct 30, 2026
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Staff Product Manager, Compliance
For a growing share of Fastly's customers, compliance is the gate in front of every other decision: where data lives, who can see it, and what they can prove afterward. This role is responsible for defining and driving what Fastly's platform gives customers to get through that gate.
As a Staff Product Manager on Fastly's Core Infrastructure Product Management team, you will own compliance as a shared capability of the platform: the controls in the control plane, the residency and sovereignty behavior customers configure, and the evidence and attestation surfaces they use directly to satisfy their own auditors and regulators. You will define these across Fastly’s platform, rather than solving the same problem separately for multiple products.
You will determine what Fastly's products must do so customers can meet their obligations, then carry those decisions through engineering, security, legal, and go-to-market. You will translate regulation into requirements and take clear positions on what to build and what not to. This role has broad latitude and real ownership, reporting to the Director of Core Infrastructure Product Management.
What You'll Do:
- Own compliance as a platform capability: define the strategy and roadmap for what Fastly must provide so customers can satisfy compliance and regulatory requirements. You will set the multi-year view, prioritize the investments that open regulated segments and unblock opportunities, and synthesize customer needs, regulatory shifts, field input, and market signals into a defensible set of priorities.
- Define residency and sovereignty requirements: own what customers need to control about where their data lives and where it moves, and turn that into requirements the platform is built to. Set the standard consistently rather than per product.
- Build the evidence customers can pull themselves: define the attestation and evidence surfaces customers use directly to show their auditors and regulators what happened to their data, when, and why. Make proof a product capability rather than a support request.
- Specify governance and control in the control plane: define what customers need to control, inspect, and demonstrate about how their configuration is set and changed – the capabilities that let them satisfy their own internal and external oversight, consistently across products.
- Get ahead of what's coming: track the regulatory shifts that change what your customers must comply with, including sovereignty regimes, privacy law, and emerging AI governance, and turn them into product requirements before they stall a deal or block adoption.
- Align partners and drive decisions: bring engineering, security, legal, and go-to-market to a shared view of what customers require, frame the tradeoffs, and drive decisions to closure. You will bring structure to problems that arrive without it, and connect complex requirements to clear customer outcomes.
What We're Looking For:
- Experience: 8+ years in product management or technical product leadership, ideally on infrastructure, platform, or security products, including ambiguous challenges that crossed organizational boundaries.
- Regulatory fluency: a working understanding of the regulations that shape enterprise software – data residency and sovereignty, privacy regimes such as GDPR and CCPA, and emerging AI governance – and the ability to turn what a customer must comply with into concrete product requirements.
- Precision: the ability to take a compliance requirement — a law, a contractual term, an auditor's ask — and pin down exactly what it obligates, then define the narrowest product capability that fully satisfies it. You know the difference between what a rule requires and what people assume it requires, and you don't over- or under-build against it.
- Technical fluency: enough command of control planes, configuration models, and how data moves through a platform to set well-grounded requirements and earn engineers' trust.
- Collaborative leadership: a proven ability to lead without authority and build the relationships that make cross-functional work move.
- Communication and presentation: a clear, confident communicator who can move between detailed requirements discussions with engineers and crisp strategic framing for executives, customers, and go-to-market partners. You can stand up in front of a room, make a case, and hold it under questioning.
We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:
- Reasoning about data residency in systems that cache, replicate, or fail over by design
- Turning an audit requirement into something a customer can pull themselves, such as with tamper-evident logs, immutable configuration history, or machine-readable attestation
- Making a product call on a regulatory requirement before the interpretation settles
- Regulated verticals such as finance, healthcare, or public sector, and the frameworks their customers are held to, including PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, or the sector-specific rules that set the bar
Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours.
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:
This position is open to Hybrid And Remote Work Locations.
The preferred locations for this position are:
- San Francisco, CA
- New York, NY
- Denver, CO
Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.
There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US.
This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
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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 $211,370.00 to $253,644.00.
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 12 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.
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