[Remote] Senior Technical Product Manager, API Traffic and Enforcement

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fastly is hiring a Senior Technical Product Manager to define and enforce what API traffic is allowed across its platform. The role owns the strategy and roadmap for API discovery, schemas, gateways, and request-path enforcement primitives, including how agents and MCP servers are identified and authorized.

Responsibilities

• Own the positive model end to end: drive the strategy and roadmap for defining what traffic is allowed. You will take customers from not knowing what APIs they run, to describing intended behavior precisely, to enforcing it in the request path
• Make API discovery tell customers something they didn't know: own discovery and inventory across the API surfaces customers actually operate. Discovery is where most customers start, and how good it is determines whether they trust anything built on top of it
• Turn schemas into enforceable contracts: own schema definition, generation, and validation. When customers can't hand you an accurate spec for their own APIs, the product has to produce one worth enforcing against, then keep it accurate as their APIs change
• Own enforcement in the request path: ACLs, allowlists, rate limiting, and the controls that turn a declared model into something the platform enforces, along with the gateway that applies them. Build these as primitives other products can adopt, not features scoped to one surface
• Make agents first-class: agents calling APIs are a new kind of client, and MCP servers are a new kind of endpoint. Define how Fastly identifies them, authorizes them, and holds them to allowed behavior
• Take and defend clear positions: bring evidence-based points of view on how traffic should be described and constrained, and drive them to decisions across engineering, product, and partner teams. You will bring structure to ambiguous problems and move decisions forward earlier

Skills

• 5+ years in product management or technical product leadership
• You understand how API traffic is described, validated, and constrained — schemas and specs, gateway behavior, and the difference between allowlist models and detection-based ones. You can reason about where each fits and what it costs to run
• A track record of building capabilities that serve more than one product or team. Shared primitives, enforcement points, or controls others build on, rather than features scoped to a single surface
• A demonstrated bias for shipping. You are hands-on and comfortable owning outcomes in ambiguous, fast-moving conditions rather than waiting for perfect clarity
• The ability to form clear, evidence-based positions and defend them across engineering and product partners, including pushing back constructively. You build alignment without relying on authority
• A clear communicator who can move between deep technical discussion with engineers and crisp framing for customers and executives, with genuine curiosity about the "why" behind a customer's problem. You can stand up in front of a room, make a case, and hold it under questioning
• Ideally on API, security, or platform infrastructure products
• Hands-on work with API gateways and OpenAPI-driven validation: schema generation from live traffic, drift detection as APIs change, and the gap between the spec a team publishes and what their API actually does
• The agentic traffic stack — workload and agent identity (SPIFFE/WIMSE, mTLS), OAuth 2.1 for delegated agent authorization, and agent protocols like MCP and its authorization spec
• Request-path enforcement at scale: WASM filters, eBPF, or policy engines like OPA and Rego
• Startup or 0-to-1 experience building API, security, or infrastructure products in a fast-moving environment

Benefits

• Eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Family planning support
• Mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Life, disability, and accident insurance
• Flexible Vacation policy
• Up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave
• 401(k), including company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• 12 paid local holidays for 2026
• 12 paid company wellness days for 2026
• Hybrid and remote work locations; largely hybrid model allowing employees to split time between the office and home, with a strong preference for hybrid near a local office and remote candidates considered within the US

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