Vercel

Staff Data Platform Engineer

Vercel

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $196,000 - $294,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKafka

About the role

  • Architect and build a scalable data platform for batch and real-time workloads.
  • Design streaming and event-driven systems using Kafka and related tooling.
  • Implement modern lakehouse foundations, including Iceberg-based storage and governance.
  • Partner with engineering, product, and leadership to define data strategy and technical direction.
  • Establish best practices for ingestion, modeling, storage, quality, and security.
  • Write production-grade code and set engineering standards across the team.
  • Improve reliability through strong observability, monitoring, and fault tolerance.
  • Drive long-term architectural decisions and evaluate build-vs-buy tradeoffs.
  • Support analytics and ML teams by delivering high-quality data systems and tooling.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in data engineering or data architecture, including senior/principal-level work.
  • Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed data systems.
  • Strong expertise with Kafka and analytics/lakehouse technologies (ClickHouse, Tinybird, Snowflake, Iceberg).
  • Strong cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Experience with data governance, reliability, and secure data operations.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across engineering and product teams.
  • Demonstrated leadership through mentorship, design ownership, or technical direction.
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation package, including equity.
  • Inclusive Healthcare Package.
  • Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
  • Flexible Time Off.
  • We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
data engineeringdata architecturedistributed data systemsstreaming systemsevent-driven systemsdata governancedata modelingdata storagedata qualitydata security
Soft skills
communicationinfluenceleadershipmentorshipdesign ownershiptechnical direction