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Engineering Director, Vercel for Platforms

Vercel · Hybrid - San Francisco · Hybrid

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About Vercel

The autonomous stack for every app and agent. Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and Khosla.

About the role

As an Engineering Director, Vercel for Platforms, you’ll lead the engineering team behind the product that lets companies build their own platforms on Vercel, from AI app builders and coding agents to SaaS products serving thousands of customers. The team is intentionally small, and its scope spans deployment infrastructure, domains, tenant isolation, identity, billing, observability, and developer tooling. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Build and grow the team through hiring, coaching, and career development, and hold a high bar for engineering standards
  • Partner with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to set roadmap priorities and deliver against product goals
  • Balance short-term product delivery with long-term investment in technical quality and platform scalability, so the platform holds up at millions of tenants and applications
  • Run operational excellence through engineering processes, incident management, and continuous improvement
  • Review and contribute code to stay close to the technology and unblock the team
More about this role

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.

As an Engineering Director, Vercel for Platforms, you’ll lead the engineering team behind the product that lets companies build their own platforms on Vercel, from AI app builders and coding agents to SaaS products serving thousands of customers. The team is intentionally small, and its scope spans deployment infrastructure, domains, tenant isolation, identity, billing, observability, and developer tooling. You’ll evolve the platform to support millions of tenants and applications while keeping that complexity out of your customers’ way, combining cross-team coordination, technical direction, and product judgment to shape a strategic growth engine for Vercel. Winning a platform means powering the applications and businesses built on top of it. This is a hybrid role based in...

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