Senior Data Engineer

Posted Yesterday
Austin, TX
150K-170K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
Vectra is looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to drive the technical vision and delivery of features in their Application Data Platform. Responsibilities include designing production-grade pipelines, writing and deploying production-grade code, contributing to automated tests, mentoring junior engineers, and participating in on-call schedules.
Summary Generated by Built In

Vectra® is the leader in AI-driven threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises.

The Vectra AI Platform delivers integrated signal across public cloud, SaaS, identity, and data center networks in a single platform. Powered by patented Attack Signal Intelligence, it empowers security teams to rapidly prioritize, investigate and respond to the most advanced cyber-attacks. With 35 patents in AI-driven threat detection and the most vendor references in MITRE D3FEND, organizations worldwide rely on the Vectra AI to move at the speed and scale of hybrid attackers. For more information, visit www.vectra.ai. 

About the role

At Vectra, our mission is to make the internet a safer and fairer place for everyone. Our AI Platform helps organizations find the things that matter and protect themselves and their clients - people like you and me - from cybersecurity attacks. We deal with some of the largest and most challenging environments across a broad set of industries - healthcare, finance, media, entertainment, retail, etc.

We're looking for a talented and hands-on Senior Data Engineer to help drive the technical vision and delivery of features in our Application Data Platform. Our Application Data Platform is designed to offer both our internal developers as well as our customers a world class developer experience empowering engineering teams and customers alike to build the features that matter most. The platform must support both analytical and operational use cases and presents interesting challenges across a variety of areas - data modeling, performance, scalability, etc.

You will work closely with Application Data Platform leadership to build and deliver our technical roadmap. On any given day you could be writing a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a particular problem we're working on, working to deliver some of the most challenging and high-leverage parts of the platform, fixing bugs or optimizing code to deliver higher performance or better overall utilization, or mentoring other engineers within the organization.

Responsibilities

To be able to work on high-impact software projects for Data Platform, you will need to:

  • Be comfortable designing production-grade pipelines and systems
  • Be comfortable writing and deploying production-grade code on a daily basis
  • Contribute to automated tests and other parts of end-to-end software delivery
  • Work collaboratively with other teams and within the team with other engineers and product managers
  • Mentor and lead by example more junior engineers, breaking up tasks for them while leading end-to-end projects
  • Evaluate and identify the correct approaches or technologies to use to solve problems
  • Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, handling production deployments and monitoring production systems

Qualifications

  • Required
    • Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in Computer Science or similar or equivalent work experience
    • 2+ years of experience as a Senior Engineer owning data production platforms
    • Strong applied software development experience; you've built, shipped, monitored, broken, and fixed software applications
    • Experience with real time or near real time data processing, databases and data management
    • Experience with an object oriented programming language (Python preferred)
    • Strong fundamentals with data structures and algorithms
    • Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments
    • Experience with a source control system (git preferred)
    • Experience with containerization or virtualization systems (Docker preferred)
    • Experience with Kubernetes
    • Experience with Cloud Providers (AWS preferred)
    • Debugging experience
  • Desirable
    • Knowledge of networking, operating systems, security fundamentals
    • Experience with a commonly-used observability tool such as Grafana or Prometheus
    • Experience with Rust
    • Experience as technical lead for a production-grade data pipeline
    • Experience as a mentor to junior engineers

Our competitive total rewards package includes cash compensation within the range provided below. Actual pay for this position may vary based on the hired candidate’s location, experience and relevant incumbent pay position.  

Vectra Total Rewards

$150,000$170,000 USD

Vectra provides a comprehensive total rewards package that supports the financial, physical, mental and overall health of our employees and their families. Compensation includes competitive base pay, incentive plan eligibility, and participation in the employee equity plan (stock options). Specific benefits offered varies by location, but commonly include health care insurance, income protection / life insurance, access to retirement savings plans, behavioral & emotional wellness services, generous time away from work, and a comprehensive employee recognition program.

Vectra is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. 

 

Top Skills

Python
The Company
Austin, TX
460 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Vectra® is the leader in threat detection and response – from cloud and data center workloads to user and IoT devices. Its Cognito® platform accelerates threat detection and investigation using AI to enrich network metadata it collects and stores with the right context to detect, hunt and investigate known and unknown threats in real time. Vectra offers four applications on the Cognito platform to address high-priority use cases. Cognito Stream™ sends security-enriched metadata to data lakes and SIEMs. Cognito Recall™ is a cloud-based application to store and investigate threats in enriched metadata. Cognito Detect™ uses AI to reveal and prioritize hidden and unknown attackers at speed. And Cognito Detect for Office 365 and Azure AD™ finds and stops attacks in enterprise SaaS applications and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. For more information, visit vectra.ai.

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