Staff Software Engineer
Staff-level individual contributor providing technical leadership for Vectra AI's Identity Domain: designing and delivering the full identity lifecycle (telemetry ingestion, normalisation, analytics, detection, observability) to secure human and non-human identities such as AI agents, service accounts, and workloads, built on distributed cloud services.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Significant professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, architecture, coding, and technical problem solving
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives and influence technical decisions beyond your immediate team
- Strong understanding of modern identity systems: authentication, authorisation, credentials, tokens, privileged access
- Expertise in AI agents, machine identities, workload identities, service accounts, or non-human identities
- Practical understanding of how organisations build, deploy, authenticate, and permission AI agents and automated systems
- Customer-oriented mindset and enthusiasm for understanding how technology is used in real-world environments
- Experience building reliable, observable cloud-based services
- Strong judgment balancing engineering quality, security, technical debt, customer needs, and business priorities
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise team effectiveness
Nice to have
- Deep knowledge of Entra ID, OAuth/OIDC, SaaS identity ecosystems, workload identity, secrets, or machine-to-machine authentication
- Experience building security capabilities for AI agents or autonomous systems
- Experience with behavioural analytics, detection engineering, anomaly detection, or high-volume security telemetry
- Cybersecurity product experience
Full description
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.
Staff Software Engineer – Identity DomainAbout Vectra AI
Vectra AI is transforming cybersecurity through AI-driven threat detection and response. Our platform brings together network, identity, cloud, SaaS, and security telemetry to uncover attacker behaviour, identify risk, and help security teams investigate and respond before threats become breaches.
Identity is changing rapidly. Alongside human users, organisations increasingly rely on AI agents, service accounts, workloads, applications, API tokens, and other non-human identities to access systems and act autonomously. These technologies create enormous opportunity, but also a rapidly expanding attack surface.
Vectra’s Identity Domain is responsible for detecting and reducing identity-based risk across identity providers and SaaS environments, including human, machine, and non-human identities.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership within Vectra AI’s Identity Domain, with particular expertise in the emerging security challenges created by AI agents, machine identities, and non-human identities (NHIs).
This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer who combines strong software engineering with deep curiosity about how customers build and operate modern identity systems.
You will need to understand how AI agents are created, deployed, authenticated, permissioned, and connected to enterprise systems and translate that understanding into security capabilities that protect customers as this new attack surface evolves.
The Identity team owns end-to-end delivery: from ingesting and normalising identity telemetry, through analytics and detection, to publishing detections and findings and making identity observability data available across the Vectra platform.
You will lead complex engineering initiatives across that lifecycle, remain hands-on with architecture and code, and help teams make strong technical decisions while delivering reliable customer outcomes.
What You’ll Do
- Design and deliver capabilities across the full Identity lifecycle: telemetry ingestion, normalisation, enrichment, analytics, detection, findings, and observability