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.
Position Overview
Our Engineering organization is a fast-growing team of collaborative, technically strong, and passionate problem solvers. We value creativity, ownership, and the drive to build meaningful technology that solves real-world security challenges. Every engineer has the opportunity to make a measurable impact—on the product, the company, and our culture. We believe in using the right tools for each problem, mentoring and learning through peer reviews, and continuously improving how we build.
The Application Data Platform team designs, builds, and maintains data-intensive applications that power customer-facing features across REST APIs and UI components. Python is our primary language, and we take pride in delivering end-to-end solutions—from frontend and API design to backend systems and databases.
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Platform engineering team, focused on building systems that ingest, process, and analyze network cloud telemetry such as flow and DNS logs.
This is a high-impact, hands-on technical leadership role. You will design and scale distributed systems that power real-time detection, while influencing architecture, standards, and engineering practices across teams.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Architecture
- Design and own the foundational data infrastructure — warehouses, lakehouses, and streaming systems — that enables data and analytics teams to operate at scale.
- Architect scalable, reliable, and secure data platform solutions across cloud environments.
- Lead platform-level architectural decisions and document trade-offs clearly.
Data Infrastructure & Pipelines
- Provide platform for developers to build, deploy, and maintain ELT/ETL pipelines using modern orchestration tools.
- Own data warehouse and data lake infrastructure; manage schema evolution, partitioning strategies, and performance tuning centrally.
- Implement CDC (Change Data Capture) pipelines using Debezium or Kafka for real-time data movement.
- Establish data contracts and schema registries to enforce data quality at the platform boundary.
Observability & Data Quality
- Implement data observability to detect freshness, volume, and schema anomalies before they reach consumers.
- Define and enforce SLAs for pipeline reliability, latency, and data freshness.
- Build monitoring, alerting, and incident response runbooks for production data systems.
Security & Governance
- Implement access controls, data classification, and secrets management across all platform components.
- Ensure compliance with security frameworks (SOC 2, FedRAMP, or equivalent); remediate findings proactively.
- Collaborate with security and governance teams to align data platform with enterprise standards.
Collaboration & Mentorship
- Partner with analytics engineers, data scientists, and product managers to deliver high-quality data solutions.
- Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering standards documentation.
- Guide and mentor junior engineers; raise the team's overall engineering bar.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Experience
- 5+ years working on production data platforms
- Track record of owning and operating platform-level systems end-to-end
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Hands-on Terraform (writing modules, state management, workspace isolation)
- Docker and Kubernetes in production (multi-tenant, scaling distribution of workloads, autoscaling)
- AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure — compute, storage, networking, IAM
Data Stack
- Cloud data warehouse: Delta lake, Iceberg
- Streaming: Kafka, Flink, or Kinesis
- Strong Python; Rust is a plus
Data Quality & Observability
- Data contracts and schema registry experience (nice to have)
- Data observability tooling (Monte Carlo, Soda, Great Expectations, or dbt tests) (nice to have)
Soft Skills
- Can defend architectural trade-offs unprompted
- Strong written communication and async collaboration
- Ownership mentality — drives initiatives to completion independently
- Ability to communicate trade-offs.
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.
Skills Required
- 6+ years in software development or equivalent experience
- Strong communication & collaboration skills
- Solid programming knowledge in Python
- Some programming experience in Rust
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Experience building and deploying distributed services to any cloud provider (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Production experience with various distributed processing technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Kafka, NATS, etc.)
- Knowledge of tools like Git or Jira
- Some experience in dealing with low level data storage formats (e.g. Parquet, Avro, Arrow, etc.)
- Knowledge of software design principles and leading software development practices
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.
