Engineering Manager, CDN

Vercel is a company that provides developers with tools and cloud infrastructure for building a faster web. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for their CDN, proxy, and edge caching systems, ensuring performance and reliability while aligning the team with business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team responsible for Vercel’s CDN, proxy, and edge caching systems
• Operate critical systems exceptionally (latency, reliability, COGS)
• Align the team to product and business goals, translating strategy into a clear roadmap
• Set direction, grow people, and create conditions for high trust, high autonomy, and high output
• Balance technical depth with strong people leadership
• Code when it’s the highest leverage (e.g., prototypes/unblocking), but default to delegation, coaching, and alignment

Requirements:

• 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• 3+ years managing engineers (managing managers is a plus)
• Demonstrated success leading CDN/proxy/caching/edge or similar high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure
• Proven ability to translate business goals into technical strategy and drive cross-org alignment
• Track record establishing trust, psychological safety, and clear expectations; skilled at timely, candid feedback
• Strong facilitator in technical conflict—you listen, synthesize, decide, and bring the team with you
• Competence across HTTP, TLS, caching strategies, load shedding, capacity planning, observability, and cost optimization
• Have experience with Go, Lua, or Node at the edge
• Running high-signal hiring pipelines
• Collaborating with product/PMM on customer-facing narratives