Senior Technical Solutions Engineer, Streaming Media

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. We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us. Posting Open Date : 3/19/26 Anticipated Posting Close Date* : 5/18/26 *Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants. Senior Customer Solutions Engineer, Streaming Media Fastly is looking for a passionate and exceptional Senior Customer Solutions Engineer to be the primary technical contact and trusted advisor for Fastly customers, building long term customer relationships with a foundation of proactive and thorough assistance. This role requires the technical expertise and the focus of client driven communications to act as the primary contact for some of our largest and most critical clients. Internally within Fastly, we title this role as a Senior Cloud Engineer. A Customer Solutions Engineer (Senior Cloud Engineer) will have broad technical expertise including cloud, system, and Fastly architecture, along with scripting/software development capabilities and an advanced understanding of networking protocols (HTTP, TCP). Additional responsibilities will include working with the account management team to develop customer specific strategy, building and maintaining technical relationships across multiple key stakeholders within an account, and handling of customer escalations. Collaborating with many teams across Fastly, this role requires leveraging technical expertise, close relationships, and communication skills to help drive customer initiatives and growth, coordinate support assistance and escalations, and effectively become an extension of the customer’s teams. The Sr. CE will be responsible for the technical mentorship and advisement on deals within their vertical.

What You'll Do:

As the resident Fastly architect for your customer, you are an extension of the customer’s technical team, and represent and champion the customers needs within Fastly Develop technical relationships with multiple customer contacts to build a deep understanding of their team, infrastructure, plans, and problems they are encountering. Demonstrate an ability to present technical concepts in a streamlined manner. Display a level of comfort in working with technical devops contacts as well as various levels in the customer org. Post sales implementation of Fastly products, such as logging endpoints, image optimization and VCL coding while documenting key aspects of the customer’s configuration for troubleshooting and engagement Identify key challenges across an account (or internal org), sometimes before they are verbalized, and develop alternatives and solutions that balance impact and effort. Partner internally to provide a comprehensive ticket escalation and support. Help investigate and recommend ways to improve customer implementation and utilization of Fastly’s product portfolio, partnering with Sales and Account Management. Be your customer's champion and advocate within Fastly, responsible for tracking and reporting on the health of your customer accounts. Develops mutually beneficial solutions to customer tasks, balancing customer impact and Fastly cost/effort. Take initiative in adopting organizational changes and sharing progress/impact with the team. Add thought leadership to the team, while engaging others to contribute. Provide constructive feedback and coaching. Mentor new Cloud Engineers to strengthen their technical expertise as it relates to your area of specialty Be an effective communicator. Internally represent your accounts with all levels of management including risks, new opportunities, and technical requirements Work hands-on with CS and Sales Leaders along with internal teams and customers on any support requests or problems for assigned customers, driving escalation as necessary depending on severity. Assist in developing strategy for and participation in regularly scheduled customer meetings on-site and by video/phone as necessary.