Engineering Manager, CDN
Core
Lead the team responsible for Vercel's CDN, proxy, and edge caching systems to ensure performance, reliability, and cost efficiency for customer requests.
Role type
Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
Builds
CDN, proxy, and edge caching systems
Domain
Internet infrastructure, distributed systems, edge computing
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
large-scale distributed systems, CDN/proxy/caching/edge, business-to-technical strategy translation, team leadership, technical conflict resolution, HTTP/TLS/caching strategies, capacity planning, observability, cost optimization
Preferred skills
Go, Lua, Node at the edge, high-signal hiring pipelines, product/PMM collaboration
Technologies
HTTP, TLS, Go, Lua, Node
Responsibilities
Operate critical systems for latency, reliability, and COGS; set direction and create conditions for high trust and autonomy; translate business goals into technical strategy; manage and coach engineers; facilitate technical conflict and decision-making
Seniority
Manager, people leadership with hands-on technical depth