Engineering Manager, CDN

Vercel · Hybrid - San Francisco · Engineering · listed November 7, 2025

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The shape of it

Seniority
Manager
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$196,000 – $336,000
Requirements listed
7
Length
537 words

In the posting’s own words

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: Operate critical systems exceptionally (latency, reliability, COGS), and align the team to product and business goals, translating strategy into a clear roadmap

What it asks for · 7

  • 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

Also a plus

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

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems
  • Observability
Frameworks
  • Node.js
Languages
  • Go
Product & design
  • Roadmap
Ways of working
  • Mentorship

Words the posting leans on

  • systems3×
  • technical3×
  • alignment2×
  • business goals2×
  • caching2×
  • clear2×
  • cost2×
  • edge2×
  • infrastructure2×
  • manager2×
  • managing2×
  • people2×
  • reliability2×
  • strategy2×
  • trust2×

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