Software Engineer, Data Platform

Vercel
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 130,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 1-3 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Asking questions","Iterating on feedback","Infrastructure mindset"]

Build and operate Vercel’s data platform infrastructure that ingests, moves, and serves data for the whole company. Work on real-time streaming and storage/query layers using Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake, with a focus on reliability at scale. Own platform features and fixes with growing independence, improve monitoring and observability, and partner on access controls and data protection so engineers, analysts, and data consumers can use self-service capabilities.

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Software Engineer, Data Platform

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Job Summary

Build and operate Vercel’s data platform infrastructure that ingests, moves, and serves data for the whole company. Work on real-time streaming and storage/query layers using Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake, with a focus on reliability at scale. Own platform features and fixes with growing independence, improve monitoring and observability, and partner on access controls and data protection so engineers, analysts, and data consumers can use self-service capabilities.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Entry level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Contribute to systems that ingest, move, and serve data across Vercel using reusable platform infrastructure.
  • •Support real-time data movement using Kafka and streaming tooling under senior engineers’ guidance.
  • •Build monitoring, alerting, and observability to catch issues before they become outages.
  • •Develop self-service platform tools and abstractions across ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake for other engineers and data consumers.
  • •Implement platform features and fixes with increasing independence, including access controls and data protection/compliance practices.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 130,000 - 200,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityHealth InsuranceTime OffHome Office

Key Requirements

  • •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 an infrastructure/data language such as Python, Java, Scala, or Go.
  • •Some exposure to distributed systems and streaming/event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka).
  • •Comfort with SQL and curiosity about how storage/query systems like ClickHouse or Snowflake work under the hood.
Experience:1-3 yearsData engineeringBackend infrastructureDistributed systemsStreamingEvent-driven architecture
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationAsking questionsIterating on feedbackInfrastructure mindset
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KafkaClickHouseTinybirdSnowflakeSQLPythonJavaScalaGoMonitoringAlertingObservability

Company Brief

Vercel
Provides a frontend cloud platform and developer tools (including Next.js and v0) that simplify building, deploying, and scaling web and AI-native applications for developers and enterprises.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series F
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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