Vectara is an agent platform built to meet enterprise requirements for security, accuracy, scalability, and observability. It is available as a service on-premises, within your VPC, or via SaaS. Backed by Purple Arch Ventures.
About the role
Vectara is seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Software Engineer with strong experience in backend development and modern DevOps practices. In this role, you’ll work on building and scaling the core infrastructure that powers our AI agent platform. You’ll help design robust services and scalable systems, with a focus on automation, observability, reliability, and performance. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on backend systems and platform engineering
- Proficiency in Java and Python
- Deep experience with all computing environments (GCP, AWS, Onprem, or Azure)
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, etc.)
More about this role
Vectara provides a scalable platform to deploy your Enterprise AI Agents and AI Assistants with Accuracy, Security, and Explainability like no other solution. Our enterprise RAG Platform offers unparalleled Accuracy, Security, and Explainability by leveraging the strongest models for retrieval, embedding, reranking , an optimized LLM trained for quality, and advanced Hallucination Mitigation . We are the developers of the Hughes Hallucination Evaluation Model and Correction model, core to ensuring accuracy, quality, and responsible AI that is production ready . These innovations have been cited in the New York Times, Visual Capitalist , and many other leading publications. This platform has allowed us to be very successful with over 100 Enterprise clients including the likes of large US military organizations, Financial services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing.
Our founding team includes industry veterans and experts in neural information retrieval and distributed systems from Google. Join us as we pursue our mission to help the world find meaning. People at Vectara are passionate about ensuring customers take advantage of breakthroughs in applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) to...
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