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 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.
- Proficiency in AI-assisted coding; able to do multiple tasks at once and manage AI agents to execute quickly and thoughtfully.
- Lead code, system design, and architecture reviews while teaching and mentoring team members.
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure backend services and platform components.
- Drive infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and monitoring/alerting pipelines.
- Collaborate with product engineering and research teams to deploy, scale, and optimize ML/NLP workloads.
- Lead initiatives to improve system reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
- Contribute to architecture and infrastructure decisions as we scale our platform.
- Champion best practices in code quality, testing, and DevOps culture across the team.
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a...
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