Data Platform Engineer: Real-Time Data Infrastructure

Vercel; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

Mentorship & Events

Flexible PTO

WFH Budget

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to join our Data Engineering team to help build the infrastructure powering data across the company. You will work on the platform itself—the streaming systems, storage layers, and tooling that other engineers, analysts, and data scientists build on top of.

You’ll work with Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake to scale throughput, reliability, and observability while implementing access controls and data protection in partnership with senior

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in data engineering, backend/infrastructure engineering, or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Solid programming foundation in Python, Java, Scala, or Go.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and streaming architectures (e.g., Kafka).
• Comfort with SQL and curiosity about ClickHouse or Snowflake design.
• Infrastructure mindset focused on building reliable platform components.
• Strong communication and collaboration with senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the systems that ingest, move, and serve data across Vercel, building reusable infrastructure other teams rely on rather than one-off pipelines.
• Work with Kafka and streaming tooling to support real-time data movement, under the guidance of senior platform engineers.
• Help build monitoring, alerting, and observability so issues get caught before they become outages.
• Contribute to internal tools and abstractions that make the platform easier for other engineers and data consumers to use self-service, working across ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake as part of the platform's storage and query layer.
• Develop platform features and fixes with growing independence, treating feedback from code review as a core part of your growth.
• Help implement access controls, data protection, and compliance practices across the platform, in partnership with senior engineers.
• Get exposure to how the team makes architecture and build-vs-buy decisions at the platform level, and how this infrastructure underpins analytics and AI/ML workloads across the company.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

Go

SQL

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

ClickHouse

Snowflake

Tinybird

Job description

Vercel is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to join our Data Engineering team to help build the infrastructure powering data across the company. You will work on the platform itself—the streaming systems, storage layers, and tooling that other engineers, analysts, and data scientists build on top of.

You’ll work with Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake to scale throughput, reliability, and observability while implementing access controls and data protection in partnership with senior