Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Vantage is a FinOps platform designed for modern engineering teams, helping them manage and optimize infrastructure costs. The Senior Software Engineer, Platform will join a high-performing team to build and maintain core data infrastructure, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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