Engineering Manager, CDN

<div class="content-intro"><h2>About Vercel:</h2> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.</span></p> <p><span data-sheets-root="1">Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.</span></p></div><h2>About the Role:</h2> <p>You’ll lead the team responsible for Vercel’s CDN, proxy, and edge caching systems—the core infrastructure that powers performance, reliability, and cost efficiency for every customer request at Vercel. Your mandate is twofold:&nbsp;Operate critical systems exceptionally (latency, reliability, COGS), and align the team to product and business goals, translating strategy into a clear roadmap</p> <p>You will set direction, grow people, and create the conditions for high trust, high autonomy, and high output—balancing technical depth with strong people leadership.&nbsp;This is a manager role, not a principal IC role. You’ll code when it’s the highest leverage (e.g., prototypes/unblocking), but your default is delegation, coaching, and alignment.</p> <h2>About You:</h2> <ul> <li>8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems</li> <li>3+ years managing engineers (managing managers is a plus)</li> <li>Demonstrated success leading CDN/proxy/caching/edge or similar high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure</li> <li>Proven ability to translate business goals into technical strategy and drive cross-org alignment</li> <li>Track record establishing trust, psychological safety, and clear expectations; skilled at timely, candid feedback</li> <li>Strong facilitator in technical conflict—you listen, synthesize, decide, and bring the team with you</li> <li>Competence across HTTP, TLS, caching strategies, load shedding, capacity planning, observability, and cost optimization</li> </ul> <h2>Bonus If You:</h2> <ul> <li>Have experience with<strong> </strong>Go, Lua, or Node at the edge; running high-signal hiring pipelines</li> <li>Collaborating with product/PMM on customer-facing narratives.</li> </ul> <h2>Benefits &amp; Compensation:</h2> <ul> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Competitive compensation package, including equity.</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Inclusive Healthcare Package.</li> <li data-stringify-indent=&qu