Software Engineer

Summary

Join Vectara, a leading provider of enterprise AI agents and assistants, as a Senior Platform Software Engineer. You will build and scale the core infrastructure of our retrieval-augmented generation platform, designing robust and scalable services focused on automation, observability, reliability, and performance. 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 the platform scales. Champion best practices in code quality, testing, and DevOps culture. This role requires a strong background in backend development and modern DevOps practices.

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)

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

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 and more