Senior Technical Product Manager (API Traffic and Enforcement)

Join Fastly, a leading edge cloud platform, as a Senior Technical Product Manager. In this role, you will own the strategy and roadmap for defining allowed traffic, API discovery, schema enforcement, and request path enforcement. You will work closely with engineering, product, and partner teams to drive decisions and build shared capabilities. This position offers a competitive salary, generous benefits, and the opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment.

Startup or 0-to-1 experience building API, security, or infrastructure products in a fast-moving environment

USD 181,220 - 217,464

Responsibilities

• Own the positive model end to end: drive the strategy and roadmap for defining what traffic is allowed, from API discovery to enforcement.
• Make API discovery tell customers something they didn't know: own discovery and inventory across the API surfaces customers actually operate.
• Turn schemas into enforceable contracts: own schema definition, generation, and validation, ensuring accuracy as APIs change.
• Platform thinking: 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

Requirements

• API and request-path fluency: 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
• Communication and presentation: 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
• Experience: 5+ years in product management or technical product leadership, ideally on API, security, or platform infrastructure products
• Execution focus: a demonstrated bias for shipping. You are hands-on and comfortable owning outcomes in ambiguous, fast-moving conditions rather than waiting for perfect clarity
• Conviction and influence: 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
• 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

Preferred

• Request-path enforcement at scale: WASM filters, eBPF, or policy engines like OPA and Rego