Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Vantage is the FinOps platform built for modern engineering teams, trusted by thousands of organizations including Block, FanDuel, Vercel, Temporal, and CircleCI, to manage and optimize infrastructure costs across hyperscalers, cloud providers, and foundational models. We're passionate about building a cloud cost transparency platform that helps enable everyone, from developers to enterprises, analyze, report, collaborate on, and optimize their cloud spend. Together we are a high-output team of ~50 employees based in New York City with a remote-friendly culture.

Backed by $25M from Andreessen Horowitz and Scale Venture Partners, and prominent industry veterans: Matthew Prince (Co-Founder, Cloudflare), Calvin French Owen (Co-Founder, Segment), Ben and Moisey Uretsky (Co-Founders, DigitalOcean), Stephanie and Nat Friedman (CEO, Github), Julia Lipton, Brianne Kimmel and others.

You'll join a small, high-performing platform team building the systems that power Vantage's core: data pipelines, workflow orchestration, and the infrastructure that keeps everything running reliably at scale. We move fast: 10-20 production releases a day, with a backlog that's always groomed and prioritized.

We use Linear and AI tools (e.g. Claude, Codex, Cursor) as core tools, not novelties. Lightweight processes (ADRs, Slack huddles) allow us to be connected and co-ordinated without sacrificing quality. Your work will span new infrastructure, performance, scalability, and systems reliability - often in the same week. Very quickly after joining, you'll see your work reflected in how the platform performs for every customer who depends on it.

We expect everyone to have a voice. If something's slowing us down or could be done better, you'll be expected to make a suggested improvement; iteration isn't just for code.

• Design and build the core data infrastructure powering Vantage's platform - spanning ingestion pipelines, query engines, and backend services at scale

• Own architecture decisions for systems built on ClickHouse, Temporal, Kubernetes, and Postgres

• Drive reliability, performance, and scalability initiatives across the platform as data volume and customer load grows

• Collaborate closely with product and application teams to define platform contracts, APIs, and developer tooling

• 5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience, with a track record of building systems that scale

• Strong foundations in distributed systems, data pipelines, or workflow orchestration - experience with Temporal, ClickHouse, or similar tools is a plus

• Comfortable contributing to infrastructure projects end-to-end: from schema design and query optimization to deployment and observability on Kubernetes

• Preference for simple, durable designs - someone who knows when not to add complexity

• Experience defining platform boundaries and enabling other engineering teams to build on top of reliable foundations

• Someone who has led impactful projects and takes ownership seriously

• A kind person

• Monitoring and observability expertise

• Experience building and deploying to cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)

• Relevant Data Visualization / financial product experience

• Ruby on Rails (7.x)

• Temporal

• Serverless Typescript

• Large scale data pipelines and storage

• Clickhouse

• Terraform

• Cloudflare

• All of the usual AWS services

Pay & Benefits

The estimated annual US base salary range for this role is $175,000 - $210,000. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and education stipends.

At this time, Vantage is only set up to employ in the United States