Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform at Vibe

ABOUT VIBE At Vibe.co [Upgrade to PRO to see link] 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 [Upgrade to PRO to see link] 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 [Upgrade to PRO to see link] 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 [Upgrade to PRO to see link] 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 [Upgrade to PRO to see link] 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 our Data Platform team, which owns how data is collected, processed, and used across Vibe; from real-time systems to internal products. This role exists because Vibe’s growth depends on turning massive data flows into reliable, scalable systems. Three reasons to care: you’ll shape the core data architecture of a fast-scaling company, work on high-volume real-time systems, and own decisions that directly impact product performance. WHAT YOU'LL DO DATA PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE - Design the future-state architecture for Vibe's data platform across batch and streaming systems - Make trade-off decisions between scalability, performance, reliability, and cost at petabyte scale - Drive technology evaluations and migrations that unlock new capabilities or reduce complexity DATA PIPELINES & PROCESSING - Build and operate pipelines that handle billions of real-time events from our bidding infrastructure - Ensure data freshness and correctness across reporting, analytics, and ML use cases - Optimize processing jobs for both speed and cost across AWS-native and open-source tools CROSS-TEAM ENABLEMENT - Work with product, engineering, and data science to understand data access patterns and bottlenecks - Define data models and APIs that make complex datasets simple to consume - Choose the right storage and query layer for each use case — from ClickHouse to Athena to Spark RELIABILITY & COST CONTROL - Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability across the entire data stack - Identify and eliminate cost inefficiencies in compute, storage, and data transfer - Build controls that prevent pipeline failures from cascading into customer-facing impact WHAT YOU NEED - Built and operated large-scale data systems in production - Designed data architectures handling high volume and complexity - Worked with batch and streaming processing systems - Written production code in Python, Go, Rust, or similar - Built systems in a cloud-native environment (AWS or equivalent) NICE TO HAVES - Experience with real-time systems - Experience with ClickHouse, Kafka, Spark, or similar - Experience working with product or ML teams 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 Salary: For candidates in France, the pay range for this role is €85,000–€115,000. For candidates elsewhere, compensation is determined based on local market levels. At Vibe, we want you to build something, own something, and grow fast. Here's how we back that up: - 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 — Paris office in the heart of paris, 3 days per 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: 1. Recruiter screen — 30 min 2. Manager interview 3. Technical Interview - 60-90min 4. Calibration interview 5. Offer 6. (For Some senior roles) Reference checks 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. 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