Senior Technical Product Manager, API Traffic and Enforcement

San Francisco, CA. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own the strategy and roadmap for defining and enforcing allowed API traffic. This includes managing API discovery, schema validation, and enforcement primitives like rate limiting and ACLs.

What you will do

Drive the strategy and roadmap for defining allowed traffic
Own discovery and inventory across customer API surfaces
Manage schema definition, generation, and validation
Own enforcement in the request path including ACLs, allowlists, and rate limiting
Define how agents are identified, authorized, and held to allowed behavior
Bring evidence-based points of view to drive decisions across teams

Required qualifications

5+ years in product management or technical product leadership
API, security, or platform infrastructure product experience
Fluency in API and request-path including schemas, specs, and gateway behavior
Track record of building capabilities that serve more than one product or team
Demonstrated bias for shipping
Ability to form and defend evidence-based positions
Ability to communicate between deep technical discussion and executive framing

Nice to have

Hands-on work with API gateways and OpenAPI-driven validation
Experience with the agentic traffic stack including SPIFFE/WIMSE, mTLS, OAuth 2.1, and MCP
Request-path enforcement at scale using WASM filters, eBPF, or policy engines like OPA and Rego
Startup or 0-to-1 experience building API, security, or infrastructure products

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Family planning
Mental health support
Employee Assistance Program
Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident)
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
12 paid company wellness days

Before you apply

Use of AI technologies is strictly prohibited during the interview process unless explicitly authorized
A fully completed application and resume or CV are required

About the company

Fastly's edge cloud platform enables customers to create digital experiences by processing, serving, and securing applications at the edge of the Internet.