Data Engineer, Data Core

Job description

ABOUT VIBE At Vibe.co http://Vibe.co, we're reimagining how brands reach audiences in the age of streaming. We believe streaming TV is no longer just a brand awareness play, it's the next great performance marketing channel. We're building the infrastructure to unlock this $100B opportunity. Vibe.co http://Vibe.co provides an Audience First Streaming TV Advertising solution for marketers to unlock TV as a growth channel. Our all-in-one solution combines hyper-targeted audience segmentation, AI-powered insights and recommendations, real-time campaign optimization, and incrementality measurement, giving brands of all sizes the precision and transparency they've come to expect from social and search, but on TV. Trusted by over 10,000 brands, Vibe.co http://Vibe.co reaches more than 120 million households across 500+ apps and channels, delivering an average 250% return on ad spend and 20% sales lift. The company hit a $100 million revenue run rate in under two years, ranking among the ten fastest software companies to reach that milestone. Vibe.co http://Vibe.co's investors include Hedosophia (an early backer of Spotify, Uber, and Airbnb), Elaia, Singular, QuantumLight (Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky's fund), and Illusian (Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen's fund), as well as angel investors including Carolyn Everson, board member of The Walt Disney Company and Coca-Cola. Nirav Tolia, CEO of Nextdoor, sits on the company's board of directors. Founded in 2022, Vibe.co http://Vibe.co is widely recognized as the category-defining platform in streaming TV advertising, bringing the power of Meta and Google-style performance marketing to the fastest-growing segment in media. ABOUT THE ROLE You'll join the Data Platform team, the group that owns Vibe's entire data backbone: storage, batch compute, and the reporting stack that shows advertisers their performance in real time. You'll report to the Engineering Manager of Data Platform. This role exists because Vibe's data volume has outgrown what most teams ever deal with: petabytes in storage and 500,000+ messages a second incoming, and it's still growing. That means the scaling problems here are real, not theoretical. You'll own systems end to end, from the first stakeholder conversation to the schema design to what happens when it breaks at 2am. And every dollar and millisecond you save shows up directly in the business, because data is the machinery Vibe runs on, not a support function bolted to the side. WHAT YOU'LL DO Platform & Storage - As a member of the data platform team, you will own all the tooling and services allowing other data-hungry teams to: - Store and access Vibe's petabyte-scale event data. - Efficiently compute on top of it: Spark, DuckDB, Trino, and needed tools at real scale. - Build the in-app reporting on an OLAP DB (ClickHouse). - Orchestrate jobs and move data around all the stack using batch or real-time approaches. Performance & Cost - Identify and fix the pipelines or queries costing the most time or money - Instrument systems so cost and latency regressions get caught before they become incidents - Anticipate scaling limits before they turn into outages Operations & Reliability - Carry on-call for the systems you own and lead incident response when things break - Write and maintain the alerts and runbooks that keep the team ahead of problems - Build tooling, conventions, or data contracts that make the rest of the team faster Cross-Functional Partnership - Translate ambiguous requests from Product, ML, and Finance into concrete deliverables - Push back on stakeholders when the right answer is "not yet" or "not this way" - Set the technical contract with the Front team for the reporting UI they build on top of your work WHAT YOU NEED - 5+ years building and operating production data platforms at real scale, not analytics or BI-adjacent work - Deep lakehouse experience from both a storage angle (Iceberg, Delta, or Hudi) and a compute angle (Spark, DuckDB, or Trino) - Production experience with a modern orchestrator (Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect) - A specific, explainable story about a pipeline or query you made measurably faster or cheaper, and why it worked - On-call and incident response experience, including alerts or runbooks you actually wrote - Comfort adapting your communication for different audiences NICE TO HAVES - Production experience with a column-store analytics engine (ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot, or BigQuery at serious scale) - Experience with streaming - Background in AdTech or programmatic advertising - Experience with Dagster, Spark, DuckDB, Iceberg, ClickHouse Cloud OUR VALUES At Vibe, we run on three values: Impact, Ambition, and Urgency. We tie every goal to a real business outcome, think 10x rather than settling for good enough, and move daily rather than waiting for perfect conditions. You'll thrive here if you own outcomes without needing direction, default to action, and hold yourself to results, not effort. This is a high-performance environment with high-performance rewards: you'll work alongside people who push you, with real ownership over hard problems in a market that's moving fast. If that sounds like the best version of your career, we want to meet you. WHAT WE OFFER At Vibe, we want you to build something, own something, and grow fast. Here's how we back that up: Location: Paris - the pay range for this role is €88,000–€120,000. - Equity — Employee Stock Ownership Plan. You're building this; you should own part of it. - Variable pay — based on objectives you hit. No arbitrary targets. - Hybrid flexibility — We're in the Heart of Paris and our team is in 3x a week! - Health insurance — Full coverage via Alan. - Meal vouchers — Via Swile. - Annual offsite — The whole team, once a year, somewhere worth the trip. - Tech Syncs — Engineering and Product meet in person at least quarterly, worldwide. OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS We respect your time. Here's exactly what to expect, no surprises, no ghosting. - Recruiter screen — 30 min with a recruiter. We'll share context; you'll share yours. - Manager interview — 45 min with the hiring manager. Experience deep-dive and judgment, not a technical grilling. - Technical interview — 90 min with the engineering team. No LeetCode, no from-scratch coding. Expect a hands-on, practical exercise, with the exact format tailored to your background. - Bar raiser — 30 min with our CTO and Cofounder. A final read on how you think and why Vibe. - Offer — Fast. We don't let good decisions sit. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Vibe is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe the best ideas come from teams with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know. REFERRAL INSTRUCTIONS Being referred? Ask your contact to submit your application directly on your behalf.