Production Engineer Jobs in Colorado
Production Engineer jobs in Colorado are in strong demand, concentrated in aerospace and defense manufacturing, oil and gas operations, and advanced electronics production, with openings for engineers at every level from new graduate through senior process lead. The heaviest hiring is in Denver, Colorado Springs, and Boulder, where established employers such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, and Ball Corporation maintain large operations and regularly bring on production engineers. The most sought-after specialties in the Colorado market include lean manufacturing, process optimization, and quality systems integration. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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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: Sept. 25, 2026
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: Oct. 23, 2026
- Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Senior Engineer - Production Cloud and Container Services
Fleet Operations and Production Engineering at Fastly is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud and Container Services team. This role is focused on helping to scale and manage Fastly’s Kubernetes based platform for control plane services. This platform is built on top of multiple public cloud services and contains many Kubernetes ecosystem components. We’re working to scale out our platform to support growth and at the same time evolve to address new business priorities. A successful candidate will help expand our platform feature set, support existing users and onboard new services, and drive efficiency while maintaining a secure platform.
What You'll Do:
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure (cloud, Fastly datacenter) to enable reliable and rapid deployment. This includes effective monitoring and resilient operations in a large-scale multi-cloud and hybrid cloud / on-premise environment. The majority of workloads are containerized but some are using native cloud services such as compute and storage.
- Diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues across the stack: application, operating system, network, 3rd party services and APIs, including cross-application dependencies.
- Deploy and support complex 3rd party and internally developed applications.
- Write tools to automate maintenance and deployment of servers, services, and applications.
- Collaborate with internal users and continually evolve the platform and its operations using solid engineering practices.
- Drive projects sometimes independently and sometimes collaboratively across time zones.
- Configure access and manage operations within a multi-cloud environment.
What We're Looking For:
- Experience running high availability systems and supporting distributed infrastructure. Most Senior level Engineers at Fastly have more than 5 years of related experience.
- You have designed services with fault tolerance and across geographies.
- You have deployed and managed multi-tiered services.
- Understanding of Linux systems, high and low level. You have used tcpdump and tracing tools.
- Experience building and operating production-grade kubernetes clusters in multiple regions, clouds or data centers. You have experience with tooling in the CNCF space, such as: prometheus, flux, helm, etc.
- Experience with programming languages such as Go and Python. You can read code and reason about what it does. You can write code within an existing large code base such as adding features. You can create medium-sized programs from scratch such as custom kubernetes controllers, custom prometheus exporters, and building tooling to help manage infrastructure.
- Experience with infrastructure and configuration management tooling. You have used Terraform to manage infrastructure.
- Experience provisioning and managing users and resources with cloud providers such as AWS and GCP. You have provisioned users and accounts using both graphical user interfaces and infrastructure as code frameworks. You have experience provisioning components on public cloud and understand how they work together in creating a multi-tiered service. You have deployed and managed services built on top of public cloud components such as EC2, S3, and GKE.
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling. You can iterate infrastructure via pipelines through code changes. You have experience using Github including creating and reviewing pull requests.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog and Grafana.
- Experience working on a distributed team. You have experience collaborating across timezones. You can articulate challenges of distributed teams and how you mitigate them.
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to accelerate your work and enable new capabilities. You have used tooling like Claude Code and created skills or agents with demonstrated success in unlocking you, your team, and/or the company to achieve more.
Work Hours:
- This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as necessary to support on-call coverage.
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:
The preferred locations for this position are:
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Denver, CO, USA
- New York, NY, USA
Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US, UK or Canada.
This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary:
The estimated salary range for this position when hired in the US is $181,220 to $217,464.
Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.
Benefits:
We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?
In the US, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.
Why Fastly?
We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful - every day.
We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.
We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.
All job applications must be submitted through our official careers site at www.fastly.com/about/careers. We will never request sensitive information, such as your Social Security number, bank account or credit card information during the application process. All official communication will come from an @fastly.com or @recruiting.fastly.com email address.
Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at candidateaccommodations@fastly.com or 501-287-4901.
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Top Industries Hiring
- Manufacturing
What Colorado Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in production engineer jobs across Colorado.
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, industrial, or manufacturing engineering from an accredited program
- Hands-on experience with lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement methodologies
- Proficiency with CAD software and manufacturing execution systems used in production environments
- Knowledge of quality management systems such as ISO 9001 or AS9100 for aerospace applications
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, bills of materials, and technical specifications
- Experience coordinating with cross-functional teams including supply chain, quality, and design engineering
Production Engineer Jobs in Colorado: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a production engineer in Colorado?
Start with a bachelor's degree in mechanical, industrial, manufacturing, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited program. Production engineering in Colorado does not require a state-issued professional license for most manufacturing and industrial roles, though engineers who offer services directly to the public may pursue licensure through the Colorado State Board of Licensure for Architects, Professional Engineers, and Professional Land Surveyors. Employers in aerospace and defense additionally value AS9100 or Six Sigma credentials.
Which companies hire production engineers in Colorado?
Employers hiring production engineers in Colorado right now include Meta, Anduril, and bp, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Colorado's aerospace corridor along the Front Range and its active oil and gas sector mean that large defense contractors, energy companies, and electronics manufacturers are consistently among the most active recruiters for this role.
Which Colorado cities have the most production engineer jobs?
Denver, Fort Collins, and Golden have the most production engineer openings in Colorado. Denver anchors the market as the state's largest metro with a broad industrial base, Colorado Springs is driven by its dense concentration of aerospace and defense contractors, and Boulder draws openings through its technology manufacturing and instrumentation firms, making each city's demand reflect the dominant industries operating there.
Are there remote production engineer jobs in Colorado?
Yes, but they're rare. Production engineering is fundamentally a hands-on, floor-level role tied to physical equipment, processes, and manufacturing lines, so most positions require on-site presence. About 75% of production engineer openings tied to Colorado are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, and those tend to cover process documentation, supplier quality audits, or technical program support rather than direct production floor work.
How can I get hired as a production engineer in Colorado with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a manufacturing or process engineering internship or co-op, which large Colorado employers like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies offer through structured early-career programs. Targeting titles such as manufacturing technician, quality technician, or process associate gives candidates a foothold on the production floor before stepping into an engineering role. Completing a Six Sigma Yellow Belt or earning an EIT designation through the Colorado Board of Licensure strengthens a resume significantly for new graduates.
Where can I find and apply to production engineer jobs in Colorado?
You can find and apply to production engineer jobs in Colorado on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search the listings, find the roles that fit your background and location, and apply directly to the ones that match. No signup is needed to see what is available.
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