Senior Software Engineer, Vectra AI
$150-170k
+ Equity
Using AI to detect cyber threats
Be an early applicant
Using AI to detect cyber threats
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-170k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the world a safer and fairer place by using AI to see and stop threats before the become breaches.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- We're looking for a talented and hands-on Senior Software 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
- 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
Our take
With the increasing advancement of technology, the need to keep our data safe and secure has never been greater. With cyber-attacks on the rise, companies are looking for ways to deter this problem.
Vectra AI has developed an AI-driven cyber security platform that detects attacker behaviors regardless of location. The company continuously creates unique algorithm models for a host of current and new threat scenarios. What sets it apart from its competitors is the fact that its AI platform excels in detecting, clustering, prioritizing, and anticipating attacks. Alerts uncover attacker methods in action and are correlated across customer environments to expose real attacks.
Vectra AI has seen considerable global growth through its continued focus on platform innovation. Its expansion into new markets and locations has firmly established it as one of the top (award-winning) cybersecurity options on the market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2021
$130m
SERIES F
Jun 2019
$100m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.3m
Company benefits
- Vectra is proud to offer competitive benefits plans and comprehensive wellness programs for employees and their families (Varies by Country)
- Unlimited PTO
- Healthcare Packages
- Global Wellness Days
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Parental Leave
- Fertility Assistance
Company values
- Customer First - We consistently put customers first and care deeply about their success. This is where trust comes from, which is essential in everything we do
- Integrity - We conduct business with integrity and don’t ignore it when the pressure is on. Passion plus integrity enables excellence to shine through naturally
- No Drama Teamwork - We engage in lively and challenging debates and have the courage to be open-minded and change our views. This is how Vectra ensures customer success
Company HQ
West Valley, San Jose, CA
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Leadership
Hitesh Sheth
(President & CEO)Former COO of Aruba Networks.
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