Vibe - Data Engineer, Data Core
Requirements
• 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 • Production experience with a column-store analytics engine (ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot, or BigQuery at serious scale) • Background in AdTech or programmatic advertising • Experience with Dagster, Spark, DuckDB, Iceberg, ClickHouse Cloud • 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. • 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
Responsibilities
• Platform & Storage • 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 • 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
Benefits
• 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. • Equity • Variable pay — based on objectives you hit. No arbitrary targets. • Variable pay • Hybrid flexibility — We're in the Heart of Paris and our team is in 3x a week! • Hybrid flexibility • Health insurance — Full coverage via Alan. • Health insurance • Meal vouchers — Via Swile. • Meal vouchers • Annual offsite — The whole team, once a year, somewhere worth the trip. • Annual offsite • Tech Syncs — Engineering and Product meet in person at least quarterly, worldwide. • Tech Syncs • 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. • Recruiter screen • 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. • Technical interview • Bar raiser — 30 min with our CTO and Cofounder. A final read on how you think and why Vibe. • Bar raiser • Offer — Fast. We don't let good decisions sit. • Offer • Equal Opportunity • Equal Opportunity
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