Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Salary: $180K - $220K Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote

About Vantage

Vantage is a cloud cost visibility and optimization platform, also known as a FinOps platform. We empower companies of all sizes to manage their cloud infrastructure costs, serving everyone from individual developers to multiple Fortune 500 customers. Our co-founders are industry veterans with prior experience as infrastructure engineers and product managers at DigitalOcean and AWS.

Vantage is an efficient and hard-working team of approximately 50 employees across the US, with a center of gravity in New York City. As we enter our growth phase, we anticipate our team size will at least double by the end of 2025.

Our current customers include Square, Aflac, PBS, FanDuel, PlanetScale, Starburst, Vercel, and many more. Vantage has raised $25M in total venture capital, including a $21M Series A financing round in March 2023. Our investors are top-tier firms and individuals such as Andreessen Horowitz, Scale Venture Partners, Matthew Prince (Co-Founder & CEO, 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.

About The Role

You will join a focused team of product and data engineers responsible for shipping features across the Vantage product. As the primary SRE for the engineering team, you will collaborate with feature teams to ensure infrastructure and observability requirements are met, enabling Vantage to scale rapidly. Additionally, you will be responsible for maintaining best-in-class infrastructure, reliability, and availability. This is a fast-paced team that constantly ships to production.

What You Will Do

• Work directly with our founders and engineers, collaborating on feature discovery, ideation, and delivery.
• Guide technical architecture decisions to support Vantage’s rapid growth.
• Be the responsible party for our production infrastructure, ensuring it is designed and operated to meet customer needs and is cost-efficient.
• Write clean, testable, and peer-reviewed code.

What We're Looking For

• A Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for partnering with product teams to build customer-delighting features.
• Strong technical background with 8+ years of experience building and operating SaaS products/platforms.
• Expertise in building and operating services at scale in Kubernetes.
• Expertise in cloud-hosted Network design and operations (e.g., VPC, Peering, subnet definitions, NAT configuration, etc.).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Terraform, Terragrunt, or Pulumi.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools, particularly Datadog.
• A proactive individual who enjoys staying updated with emerging trends and technologies in the SRE and DevX ecosystem and integrating them into projects.
• Someone excited to make progress and who holds a high degree of responsibility.
• A kind and collaborative person.

Pay & Benefits

• Estimated Annual US Base Salary: $180,000 - $220,000. This range may encompass several career levels and will be refined during the interview process based on factors such as candidate experience, qualifications, and location.
• Additional Benefits May Include:
  • Equity
  • 401(k) plan
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Education stipends

Note: At this time, Vantage is only set up to employ individuals within the United States.