Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Vantage, a cloud cost visibility and optimization platform, as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). You will collaborate closely with product and data engineers to ensure the infrastructure and observability requirements are met for rapid scaling. Responsibilities include guiding technical architecture decisions, managing production infrastructure for cost efficiency, writing clean code, and partnering with product teams to build customer-delight features. The ideal candidate possesses a strong technical background with 8+ years of experience in building and operating SaaS products, expertise in Kubernetes, cloud networking, Infrastructure as Code, and observability tools like Datadog. The role requires a passion for staying updated on emerging technologies and a commitment to high responsibility. Vantage offers a competitive salary ($180,000-$220,000), equity, 401(k), medical, dental, vision benefits, and education stipends.

Requirements

• A SRE with a passion for partnering with product teams to build features that delight customers
• Strong technical background, including 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, Pulumi etc
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools, particularly Datadog
• Someone who enjoys staying updated with emerging trends and technologies in the SRE and DevX ecosystem to pull them into projects when appropriate
• Someone excited to make progress and hold a high degree of responsibility
• A kind person

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

• Equity
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Education stipends