Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform

Location: New York City or San Francisco, United States

Salary: $190,000–$258,000 annual base pay in San Francisco; compensation may be adjusted based on employee location.

Company

Vercel builds agentic infrastructure and developer products including Next.js, v0, and AI SDK.

What you will do

• Design and develop the Finance Data Platform supporting revenue recognition, consumption-based billing, financial reporting, forecasting, and real-time usage pipelines.
• Translate Finance, Accounting, FP&A, and Revenue Operations requirements into scalable technical architecture aligned with reporting deadlines and audit cycles.
• Define standards for financial data ingestion, transformation, storage, modeling, lineage, governance, and integrity across ClickHouse, Tinybird, Snowflake, and related systems.
• Build reliable, low-latency data solutions and establish monitoring, alerting, incident response, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit to support SOX, SOC 2, and other regulatory requirements.
• Drive architecture and roadmap decisions, evaluate financial and billing tooling, and mentor engineers as the function grows.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a closely related field, with ownership of production data pipelines.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale data infrastructure using Kafka and its ecosystem, ClickHouse, Tinybird, Snowflake, and broader big data frameworks.
• Experience building pipelines for financial reporting, revenue recognition, billing, or consumption-based pricing.
• Proficiency with AWS, GCP, or Azure and associated big data services.
• Strong data governance, security, compliance, audit, SOX, SOC 2, lineage, and data accuracy experience.
• Strong communication, architecture, consensus-building, and engineering mentorship skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with NetSuite, Workday, ERP systems, or billing platforms.
• Industry recognition or notable contributions to data engineering, including publications or open-source work.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on financial-grade data systems supporting company-wide reporting, forecasting, billing, and audit readiness.
• Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, Revenue Operations, Security, Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, and Data Science.
• Total compensation may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and company bonus or variable pay eligibility.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination.

Hiring process

• Applicants explain why they are a good fit for the role.
• Recruiters provide further compensation details during the hiring process.