Data Platform Engineer — Real-Time Data Infra & Scale

Vercel; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

Mentorship

Flexible time off

WFH budget

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to join the Data Engineering team. You will work on the core platform—the streaming systems, storage layers, and tooling that other engineers, analysts, and data scientists rely on.

Expect hands-on work with Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake to build reliable infrastructure at scale. You will contribute to ingestion, movement, and serving of data, while improving monitoring, observability, and security across the platform.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in data engineering or backend/infrastructure engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Solid programming foundation in Python/Go/Java or similar.
• Exposure to distributed systems and streaming (Kafka).
• Comfort with SQL and curiosity about storage/query systems like ClickHouse or Snowflake.
• Infrastructure mindset: building what other systems run on.
• Strong communication and collaboration with senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the systems that ingest, move, and serve data across Vercel, building reusable infrastructure for other teams.
• Work with Kafka and streaming tooling to support real-time data movement under guidance of senior platform engineers.
• Help build monitoring, alerting, and observability to catch issues before outages.
• Contribute to internal tools and abstractions that make the platform easier for engineers and data consumers to use self-service across ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake.
• Develop platform features and fixes with growing independence, embracing code review feedback.
• Help implement access controls, data protection, and compliance practices across the platform with senior engineers.
• Get exposure to architecture and build-vs-buy decisions at the platform level for analytics and AI/ML workloads across the company.

Skills

Data engineering

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Kafka

ClickHouse

Snowflake

Tinybird

Job description

Vercel is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to join the Data Engineering team. You will work on the core platform—the streaming systems, storage layers, and tooling that other engineers, analysts, and data scientists rely on.

Expect hands-on work with Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake to build reliable infrastructure at scale. You will contribute to ingestion, movement, and serving of data, while improving monitoring, observability, and security across the platform.