Operations Analyst

🏢 Fastly · 📍 Denver, CO; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA 💰 $102,780 - $137,040 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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: 9/9/26

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 12/9/26

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Operations Analyst

The Executive Planning & Operations team solves critical strategy, planning, and execution challenges across Fastly. We are looking for a curious and proactive Operations Analyst to partner with leadership in Engineering, Product Management, Analytics, Finance, Program Management, Product & Engineering Operations, and others to develop and manage engineering, financial, and technical processes, execute key operational cadences, and drive successful business outcomes.

What You'll Do:

Manage and mature multiple key cross-organizational processes including Product Lifecycle, Engineering Ops, software capitalization, and others
Operationalize and mature emerging processes around FinOps and cloud spend management
Instill discipline and consistency within the Product and Engineering teams in terms of operational methodologies and documentation, working with Senior Director & VP level resources
Work closely with cross-functional resources as primary point of contact to improve communications, enhance visibility, and measure results of different strategic portfolios
Champion tooling and process improvements that help the team and Fastly scale

What We're Looking For:

4+ years in business operations or other key functions including business process improvement, and product or engineering teams (bonus points for both)
Strong attention to detail within big picture context

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Fastly Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Low-latency systems engineering and edge computing mastery, testing absolute rigor in performance and reliability.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Hand-waving performance bottlenecks or ignoring network-level constraints
2. Lack of low-level debugging skills in C, Rust, or modern systems languages
3. Proposing bloated architectural layers that increase latency

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I build lightning-fast edge architectures that push compute closer to the user without sacrificing reliability.

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