Software Engineer, Data Platform

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We're looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join our Data Engineering team and help build the infrastructure that powers data across Vercel. This isn't a reporting or pipelines-for-a-dashboard role. You'll work on the platform itself: the streaming systems, storage layers, and tooling that other engineers, analysts, and data scientists build on top of.

What it asks for · 7

• 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 a language commonly used in infrastructure or data systems (e.g., Python, Java, Scala, Go, or similar)
• Some exposure to or strong interest in distributed systems and streaming/event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka)
• Comfort with SQL, and curiosity about how storage and query systems like ClickHouse or Snowflake are designed under the hood, not just how to query them
• An infrastructure mindset: drawn to building the thing other systems run on, more than the report or dashboard on top of it
• Good communication skills and comfort collaborating with senior engineers, asking questions, and iterating on feedback

What the job covers

• 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.

Degree language

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• data11×
• platform9×
• engineers7×
• systems7×
• infrastructure6×
• build5×
• kafka3×
• query3×
• senior engineers3×
• snowflake3×
• storage3×
• architecture2×
• building2×
• clickhouse tinybird2×
• comfort2×
• contribute2×

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