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VercelVercelSan Francisco, CA

Engineering Manager, CDN

Leads engineering team building and operating Vercel's CDN, proxy, and edge caching infrastructure for high performance and reliability. Requires 8+ years in distributed systems and 3+ years managing engineers, with expertise in low-latency systems.

196k – 336k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

About You

  • 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

Bonus If You

  • Have experience with Go, Lua, or Node at the edge; running high-signal hiring pipelines
  • Collaborating with product/PMM on customer-facing narratives.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package, including equity.
  • Inclusive Healthcare Package.
  • Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
  • Flexible Time Off.
  • We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

Skills

CdnProxyEdge CachingDistributed SystemsHttpTlsGoLuaNode.jsObservability
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