Senior Data Engineer

About Vantage: Vantage is a cloud cost visibility and optimization platform, also known as a FinOps platform. We assist companies of all sizes in managing their cloud infrastructure costs, from individual developers to multiple Fortune 500 customers. Our co-founders are seasoned industry veterans with backgrounds as former infrastructure engineers and product managers at DigitalOcean and AWS. Our efficient and hardworking team consists of approximately 40 employees across the US, with a central hub in New York City. As we transition into a growth phase, we expect our team size to at least double by the end of 2025. Our current clientele includes Aflac, PBS, FanDuel, Rippling, Compass, Ripple, and Starburst. Vantage has raised a total of $25M in venture capital, including a recent $21M Series A financing round in March 2023, backed by top-tier investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Scale Venture Partners, among others.

About The Role: Vantage is seeking a data engineer to be the foundation of our data platform efforts. This role involves owning and developing our large-scale ingestion pipeline and query layer, which warehouse cost data powering the core of the Vantage product. You will collaborate with our engineers to develop and scale the data ingestion, transformation, and query layers to meet the growing needs of our customer base. Currently, we primarily use Clickhouse, Postgres, Temporal, Redis, and S3.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, build, and operate the data processing platform that processes billions of records monthly.
• Develop and maintain the query and data infrastructure critical to the Vantage product.
• Collaborate directly with our founders on feature discovery, ideation, and delivery.
• Work closely with Product and engineering teams to understand data processing needs and propose effective solutions.
• Measure performance of our data processing platform to ensure it supports our rapidly growing business.

What We're Looking For:

• BA/BS degree and a strong technical background with 8+ years of professional experience.
• 2+ years of experience in building and operating data platforms that handle large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
• Experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, balancing tactical and strategic considerations.
• Proficiency with MPP databases such as Clickhouse, Snowflake, Hive, etc.
• Familiarity with big data technologies, including Trino, Spark, Hadoop, Airflow, Kafka.
• Knowledge in reliability engineering, focusing on data quality, data observability, and incident management.
• A kind and collaborative demeanor.

Bonus Points:

• Monitoring and observability expertise.
• Experience building and deploying on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
• Relevant experience in data visualization or financial products.

Pay & Benefits: The estimated annual US base salary range for this role is $170,000 - $240,000. This range may encompass several career levels and will be refined during the interview process based on various factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Additional benefits may include equity, a 401(k) plan, medical, dental, and vision benefits, as well as education stipends. At this time, Vantage is only set up to employ in the United States.