Director of Data Engineering, Vimeo
$192-264.8k
All-in-one video experience platform
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All-in-one video experience platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$192-264.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Vimeo's mission is to empower video creators to tell exceptional stories, and connect with their audiences and communities.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics, or data architecture, with 3+ years in a leadership role
- Deep expertise in modern cloud data platforms, ideally Google Cloud
- Strong background in full-stack data engineering, including orchestration (Airflow, dbt), streaming (Kafka, Flink), and distributed computing
- Experience in automating data workflows, optimizing query performance, and implementing observability frameworks
- Hands-on experience with data catalogs, metadata management, and governance frameworks
- Ability to set and execute a long-term vision for data infrastructure, automation, and reliability
- Experience building and scaling high-performing teams across data engineering, analytics, and governance
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders
What the job involves
- Vimeo is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to lead our data strategy, architecture, and automation efforts
- This role will drive the development of a modern, scalable lakehouse architecture with Databricks on Google Cloud Platform
- The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in full-stack data engineering, automation, and governance, with a tech-agnostic approach that ensures Vimeo’s data infrastructure remains scalable, cost-effective, and future-proof
- They will also oversee production automation engineering and reliability for data workflows, ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance
- This is a high-impact, strategic leadership role, requiring a mix of technical depth, architectural vision, and people leadership to build a cutting-edge data ecosystem at Vimeo
- Drive and lead strategic, cross-functional initiatives in order to enable data standardization, increase data consumption and boost data-driven decision making
- Communicate findings and insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Build and maintain user-friendly and informative dashboards, reports, and presentations in order to enable day-to-day and strategic data-driven decision making
- Perform advanced analytical deep dives to help stakeholders drill down into why they see certain outcomes
- Foster a relationship of trust and cooperation with the stakeholders, creating an atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration
- Data Architecture & Engineering:
- Design and implement Vimeo’s lakehouse architecture, leading an enterprise migration from Snowflake to Databricks
- Build and scale data processing pipelines (batch and real-time) using Apache Spark, SQL engines, Airflow, and cloud-native services
- Drive data modeling and optimization strategies to ensure high-performance analytics, machine learning, and product insights
- Ensure seamless integration between storage, compute, and analytics layers, supporting both structured and unstructured data
- Production Automation & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE):
- Lead automation-first initiatives for data ingestion, transformation, and governance using CI/CD, dbt, Airflow, and Terraform
- Establish observability, monitoring, and fault-tolerance frameworks to ensure high uptime and performance across data workflows
- Optimize cost efficiency and scalability of compute-intensive workloads by leveraging auto-scaling, caching, and federated query optimizations
- Implement SRE best practices to automate incident detection, resolution, and continuous improvement in data operations
- Governance, Security & Compliance:
- Define and enforce data governance best practices, ensuring compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and internal security policies
- Implement enterprise-grade access control frameworks using Databricks Unity Catalog and Atlan
- Oversee metadata management, data lineage tracking, and cataloging to improve data discoverability and trust
- Leadership & Collaboration:
- Build and mentor a high-performing team of data engineers
- Partner with Analytics, Product, Engineering, and AI/ML teams to enable data-driven decision-making and innovation
- Champion a data-first culture, promoting self-service analytics and democratized access to insights
Our take
Vimeo was founded by filmmakers who wanted an efficient way to share videos with others. It is more creator-oriented than YouTube, with professional software, technology, and tools for creators to produce, share, and sell their videos.
In 2007, it became the first online video sharing site to support HD playback for consumers, updating to 4K playback in 2016. Vimeo's app has also been updated to allow recording and live streaming as well as watching video. This service is aimed predominantly at enterprise customers although they have millions of small-time users too.
Vimeo has risen to become the world's biggest ad-free open video platform, with significant funding that has allowed it to expand operations and build up the business. Recently, however, the company has found itself struck by the effects of the economic downturn felt by much of the industry, and has been forced to reduce its workforce - a step taken to ensure it comes out of this rough time "a stronger company". On top of this, it received a hefty fine for failure to remove copyrighted content back in 2019, after losing an appeal against the initial ruling.
In 2024, Vimeo is rumoured to be in the process of acquisition by leading mobile app developer Bending Spoons, which could signify a major shift in the tech landscape.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2021
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Nov 2020
$150m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $450m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off
- Medical and dental
- Daily breakfast, plus snacks and drinks aplenty
- Company outings and events
- Tuition reimbursement
- Company equity
- Company-matched charitable donations
- Parental leave and adoption assistance
- Company-matched 401k
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Adam Gross
(Interim CEO)Currently Board Member at Buildkite. Previously Chair of the Board of Directors at Democracy Works and the CEO of Salesforce.
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