About the position
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 retrieval-augmented generation platform. You’ll help design robust services and scalable systems, with a focus on automation, observability, reliability, and performance.
Responsibilities
- Proficiency in AI-assisted coding; able to do multiple tasks at once and manage AI agents to quickly execute.
- 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on backend systems and platform engineering.
- Proficiency in languages like Go, Python, or Java; experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
- Deep experience with all computing environments (GCP, AWS, Onprem, or Azure).
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, etc.).
- Experience working on ML platforms or supporting ML workloads in production.
- Familiarity with data infrastructure (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Airflow).
Benefits
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision begins on your first day!
- Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA).
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time, holidays, and company rest days.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Company virtual happy hours and fun team building activities.
