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Salary: USD 262,000 - 348,000 / annual
Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company enabling builders to ship software with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. The company powers applications for OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.
You will lead the engineering team responsible for Vercel for Platforms, a strategic product that enables companies to build their own platforms on Vercel—from AI app builders and coding agents to SaaS products serving thousands of customers. The team provides infrastructure to programmatically deploy and run customer applications with custom domains, tenant isolation, and seamless developer experience.
While intentionally small, the team's scope spans deployment infrastructure, domains, identity, billing, observability, and developer tooling. This is a deep systems and scale challenge: evolving Vercel to support platforms managing millions of tenants and applications while making that complexity feel simple. The role combines cross-team coordination, technical direction, product judgment, and broad organizational influence to shape a strategic growth engine.
Key responsibilities include:
- Build and grow a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, mentorship, and career development
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and high engineering standards
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to define roadmap priorities and execute ambitious product goals
- Occasionally review and contribute code to stay close to the technology and unblock the team
- Drive operational excellence through strong engineering processes, incident management, and continuous improvement
- Balance short-term product delivery with long-term investments in technical quality and platform scalability
Requirements:
- 8+ years building and operating large-scale platforms or multi-tenant systems
- 5+ years managing engineers
- Strong technical foundation; ability to review system designs, understand data model challenges, and evaluate infrastructure tradeoffs
- 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; ability to listen, synthesize, decide, and bring the team with you
- Clear communicator who sets expectations, gives direct feedback, and builds trust across teams
