Principal Data Engineer - Governance & Compliance

About the Role

You will sit at the intersection of data platform engineering, governance, and compliance, helping Vibe make its data assets easier to understand, safer to use, and ready to scale with premium publishers and enterprise advertisers.

What You’ll Do

Data governance & discoverability

• Build a clear understanding of Vibe's key data flows, sources of truth, and ownership.
• Help define schemas, data contracts, documentation, and standards for how data should be used across the company.
• Improve data discoverability so teams can confidently understand what data exists, where it lives, and how to use it.
• Establish practical standards around data quality, lineage, observability, and ownership.
• Define, maintain and enforce data lifecycle policies.
• Help teams track data cost and usage.

Data compliance & privacy

• Define and implement data compliance practices aligned with Vibe's business, partners, and regulatory needs.
• Partner with Legal, Product, Security, and Engineering to assess the impact of new data sources, partnerships, and use cases.
• Help clarify what data can be used, how it can be used, where it should live, and how long it should be retained.
• Support Vibe's ability to work confidently with premium publishers, enterprise advertisers, and strategic partners.

Lead governance without slowing people down

• Build guardrails, not gatekeepers, enabling engineers and teams to move fast while making safe, compliant decisions.
• Embed governance and compliance into existing engineering workflows, tools, and architectural decisions.
• Help Vibe transition toward a more security‑aware, compliance‑aware data culture.
• Identify the biggest risks, gaps, and opportunities, then define a pragmatic roadmap to address them.

What You Need

• Hands‑on experience building or operating large‑scale data platforms.
• Strong practical experience with data governance, data quality, data contracts, lineage, access control, or compliance‑oriented data architecture.
• A proven track record implementing compliance frameworks in real engineering systems.
• Experience working with sensitive, regulated, or contractually constrained data.
• Ability to translate legal, compliance, security, and business requirements into practical engineering solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across Engineering, Product, Legal, Security, and Analytics.
• Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor with high ownership and strong influence.
• Comfort with ambiguity, early‑stage environments, and building structure where it does not yet exist.
• Based in Europe, or able to work closely with European engineering teams.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with adtech, connected TV, streaming TV, publisher data, or measurement platforms.
• Experience with identity resolution, device graphs, clean rooms, or privacy‑safe data matching.
• Familiarity with GDPR, CCPA, SOC2, or similar compliance frameworks.
• Experience with modern data tooling such as Airflow, Dagster, dbt, Kafka, S3, Athena, Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar.
• Experience with data catalogs, lineage tooling, policy‑as‑code, access governance, or data observability platforms.
• Familiarity with ML data workflows, feature stores, model training data, or permitted use of data for ML systems.

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.

What We Offer

• Variable pay – based on objectives you hit. No arbitrary targets.
• Hybrid flexibility – We’re in the heart of Paris and the 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.

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.