Director of Engineering
VercelHybrid - San Francisco, New York Cityposted 11h ago
- PayUSD / yr
- $262k – 348k
- Where
- Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City
- Posted
- Oct 20
- 11 hours ago
- Type
- Full-time
- Setup
- Hybrid
At a glance
Lead Vercel’s Platforms engineering organization, scaling multi-tenant deployment infrastructure for millions of applications while building a high-performing team and shaping a strategic growth engine.
Summarized by AI from the original posting
What you'll do
- Build and grow a high-performing engineering team
- Hire, coach, mentor, and support career development
- Partner with Product, Design, and engineering teams on roadmap priorities
- Review and occasionally contribute code
- Drive operational excellence, incident management, and continuous improvement
- Balance product delivery with technical quality and platform scalability
- Provide technical direction and organizational influence for Vercel for Platforms
Requirements
- 01Strong technical foundation in system design, data models, and infrastructure tradeoffs
- 02Ability to translate business goals into technical strategy
- 03Experience driving cross-organizational alignment
- 04Track record establishing trust and psychological safety
- 05Strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills
- 06Clear communication and direct feedback skills
Perks
Skills
Full description
About Vercel:
Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.
Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.
You’ll lead the engineering team responsible for Vercel for Platforms. This product enables companies to build their own platforms on Vercel, from AI app builders and coding agents to SaaS products serving thousands of customers. We provide the infrastructure to programmatically deploy and run their customers’ applications, with custom domains, tenant isolation, and a seamless developer experience. This team is strategic to Vercel’s growth. Winning a platform means powering the applications and businesses built on top of it.
We’re looking for an engineering leader to own this horizontal team. While the team is intentionally small, the scope spans deployment infrastructure, domains, identity, billing, observability, and developer tooling. It’s a deep systems and scale challenge: evolving Vercel to support platforms managing millions of tenants and applications while making that complexity feel simple. This role combines cross-team coordination, technical direction, product judgment, and broad organizational influence to shape a strategic growth engine for Vercel
This position is hybrid based in SF or NYC
What You Will Do:
- Build and grow a high-performing team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentorship, and thoughtful career development.
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and high engineering standards while creating an environment where engineers can do their best work.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to define roadmap priorities and execute against ambitious product goals.
- Occasionally review and contribute code to stay close to the technology and unblock the team when needed.
- 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.
- 8+ years building and operating large-scale platforms or multi-tenant systems
- 5+ years managing engineers
- Strong technical foundation. You can 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. You listen, synthesize, decide, and bring the team with you
- Clear communicator who sets expectations, gives direct feedback, and builds trust across teams
Benefits & Compensation:
- Competitive compensation package and stock options.
- Comprehensive, inclusive healthcare package.
- Opportunities for mentorship and professional growth, including attendance at industry events.
- Flexible Time Off with a recommended minimum of four weeks per year, plus paid holidays.
- Remote-friendly culture with teammates across multiple time zones.
- Dedicated equipment and work-from-home budget to help you create an effective workspace.
The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $262,000-$348,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.
Disclosures:
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- Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.