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$196,000 – $336,000
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What this role is
Lead Vercel's CDN and edge infrastructure systems, responsible for the performance and reliability backbone serving millions of developers. You'll manage a team of engineers while balancing hands-on technical depth with people leadership, translating business strategy into platform roadmaps.
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- 3+ years managing engineers
- Demonstrated success leading CDN, proxy, caching, or edge infrastructure
- Translate business goals into technical strategy and drive cross-org alignment
- Establish trust, psychological safety, and clear expectations
- Facilitate technical conflict resolution
Nice to have
- Experience managing managers
- Experience with Go, Lua, or Node at the edge
- High-signal hiring pipeline experience
- Collaboration with product and PMM on customer narratives