Sr. Engineering Manager, Platform

Vercel

San Francisco, United States
Base: $208,000-$300,000 (nyc); bonus/equity: equit...
On-site
Kubernetes production operations
Ci/cd systems
Api gateways
Lead and grow a team of highly independent engineers across Reliability & Resilience and Developer Productivity teams; set org structure, hiring plan, and delivery goals

Job Summary

  • Lead and grow a team of highly independent engineers across Reliability & Resilience and Developer Productivity teams; set org structure, hiring plan, and delivery goals.
  • Build an industry-leading reliability practice: manage SLOs and error budgets, run incident response and postmortems, and prioritize resilience work across critical services.
  • Competitive compensation package, including equity, inclusive healthcare, and flexible time off.

Matching Summary

Lead and grow a team of highly independent engineers across Reliability & Resilience and Developer Productivity teams; set org structure, hiring plan, and delivery goals.

Salary

Base: $208,000-$300,000 (NYC); Bonus/Equity: Equity included; Benefits: Inclusive Healthcare Package, Learn and Grow, Flexible Time Off, WFH budget

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Kubernetes production operations
  • CI/CD systems
  • API gateways
  • storage and caching infrastructure
  • observability
  • secrets management
  • cost and capacity management
  • SaaS vendor relationships

Nice-to-have

  • experience using Vercel platform
  • managing managers is a plus
  • psychological safety
  • technical conflict resolution

Key Requirements

  • 3+ years managing engineers
  • 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • Hands-on technical depth
  • Track record owning key platform dependencies
  • Demonstrated ownership of reliability programs
  • Proven ability to translate business goals into technical strategy

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