2026-11 Senior/Staff Software Engineer
Senior/Staff platform software engineer building and scaling the core infrastructure behind Vectara's enterprise RAG and AI agent platform — designing secure backend services, driving CI/CD, observability, and reliability, and supporting ML/NLP workloads. Core stack: Java, Python, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, Terraform, Prometheus/Grafana.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer focused on backend systems and platform engineering
- Proficiency in AI-assisted coding; manage AI agents to execute tasks quickly and thoughtfully
- Proficiency in Java and Python
- Deep experience with computing environments (GCP, AWS, on-prem, 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.)
- Experience working on ML platforms or supporting ML workloads in production
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems
Nice to have
- Familiarity with data infrastructure (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Airflow)
Full description
Vectara provides a scalable platform to deploy your Enterprise AI Agents and AI Assistants with Accuracy, Security, and Explainability like no other solution. Our enterprise RAG Platform offers unparalleled Accuracy, Security, and Explainability by leveraging the strongest models for retrieval, embedding, reranking, an optimized LLM trained for quality, and advanced Hallucination Mitigation. We are the developers of the Hughes Hallucination Evaluation Model and Correction model, core to ensuring accuracy, quality, and responsible AI that is production ready. These innovations have been cited in the New York Times, Visual Capitalist, and many other leading publications. This platform has allowed us to be very successful with over 100 Enterprise clients including the likes of large US military organizations, Financial services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing.
Our founding team includes industry veterans and experts in neural information retrieval and distributed systems from Google. Join us as we pursue our mission to help the world find meaning. People at Vectara are passionate about ensuring customers take advantage of breakthroughs in applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve real-world technology and business problems today. Our team is a group of unquestionable all-stars in their respective fields of computer science and business from Google, Cloudera, Splunk, MongoDB, Elastic, and more.
Role Overview: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.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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.