Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2026)

About Vantage:

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 team of product engineers shipping across the full Vantage stack — core reporting provider integrations and billing/onboarding. 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 features performance scalability and tech debt reduction often in the same week. Very quickly after joining you'll see your work in our changelog (https://docs.vantage.sh/changelog)

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.

What You Will Do:

• Work directly with our engineering team and a mentor to build and ship new features

• Write clean testable peer-reviewed code

• Own end-to-end feature development - including measuring and reporting on customer impact

What We’re Looking For:

• Someone currently enrolled in college or university

• Experience in at least one object-oriented programming language. We use Ruby for our backend and are happy to teach it

• Someone who is curious and excited to rapidly build test and deliver product features that delight customers

• Available full-time for 10-12 weeks in our office in New York City between May and August

• A kind person

Bonus Points:

• Experience with a web framework such as Ruby on Rails Django or Express.js

• Experience with a front-end framework such as Vue React or Angular

• Previous experience working within a startup environment

Our Tech Stack:

• 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 $6000 - $7000 per month. 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 and this role requires working out of our office in New York City

What We Do

Vantage is a cloud cost observability platform with more than a dozen native integrations including AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Datadog Snowflake Databricks and more. Thousands of organizations globally ranging from startups to F500 companies rely on Vantage to optimize billions of dollars in annualized infrastructure costs. Vantage was founded by former employees of AWS Digital Ocean and GitHub and is backed by top venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Scale Venture Partners.