Senior Data Platform Engineer – Real-Time Analytics (Remote)

Webhosting; Northern, New York (KY, NY); On-site; USD 232,000 - 348,000; Full time

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Staff level Engineer to lead the design and development of a next-generation Data Platform powering real-time analytics and AI initiatives. This role reports to the Senior Director of Data Engineering and will architect scalable systems across the data stack.

You will mentor a team of engineers, collaborate with product, security, and data science teams, and define the technical vision to drive data governance and high availability at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience designing large-scale data platforms with real-time and batch processing.
• Proven ability to align data strategy with product goals.
• Experience with data ingestion, ETL and data warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a next-gen data platform supporting batch and real-time data.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align data strategy with product goals.
• Establish data ingestion, enrichment, and storage guidelines.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence.
• Ensure high availability, monitoring and incident response.

Skills

Kafka

ClickHouse

Snowflake

Tinybird

ETL

Data governance

Mentoring

Real-time analytics

Tools

Monitoring tools

Incident response tooling

Job description

Vercel is seeking a Staff level Engineer to lead the design and development of a next-generation Data Platform powering real-time analytics and AI initiatives. This role reports to the Senior Director of Data Engineering and will architect scalable systems across the data stack.

You will mentor a team of engineers, collaborate with product, security, and data science teams, and define the technical vision to drive data governance and high availability at scale.