[Remote] Sr. Engineering Manager, Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vercel is an agentic infrastructure company that shapes how the web is built. They are seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead teams focused on Reliability & Resilience and Developer Productivity, overseeing strategy, execution, and people leadership across core platform and operational domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of highly independent engineers across Reliability & Resilience and Developer Productivity teams; set org structure, hiring plan, and delivery goals
• Own the platform roadmap and execution for improvements in development velocity, iteration speed, platform availability, and deployment safety
• Build an industry-leading reliability practice: manage SLOs and error budgets, run incident response and postmortems, and prioritize resilience work across critical services
• Operate and evolve core platform services including API gateway, storage and caching infrastructure, secrets management, and observability
• Manage capacity and cost: forecasting, right-sizing, tuning, and spend governance tied to workload and growth plans
• Own key relationships with critical SaaS vendors supporting our platform stack, including evaluation, contracts/renewals, and operational integration

Skills

• 3+ years managing engineers (managing managers is a plus)
• Hands-on technical depth in Kubernetes production operations, CI/CD systems
• Track record owning key platform dependencies such as API gateways, caches, petabyte-scale KV stores and databases
• Demonstrated ownership of reliability programs: SLOs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, and measurable reductions in downtime
• Proven ability to translate business goals into technical strategy and drive cross-org alignment
• 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• 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
• Have experience using Vercel platform

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

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