Staff Identity Security Engineer (AI & NHIs)

Vectra AI; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vectra AI in Dublin, Ireland, seeks a Staff Software Engineer for its Identity Domain to provide technical leadership across identity telemetry, analytics, and security capabilities. You will own end-to-end delivery from ingestion to detections and observability, mentoring engineers and shaping product strategy.

The role focuses on human, machine, and non-human identities, including AI agents, service accounts, and workloads, with emphasis on secure, scalable cloud services and strong

Qualifications

• 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, including authentication, authorisation, credentials, tokens, and privileged access.
• Expertise in AI agents, machine identities, workload identities, service accounts, non-human identities, or closely related identity-security problems.
• Practical understanding of how organisations build, deploy, authenticate, and permission AI agents and automated systems.
• A customer-oriented mindset and enthusiasm for understanding how technology is used in real-world environments.
• Experience building reliable, observable cloud-based services.
• Strong judgment when balancing engineering quality, security, technical debt, customer needs, and business priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise the effectiveness of teams around you.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver capabilities across the full Identity lifecycle: telemetry ingestion, normalisation, enrichment, analytics, detection, findings, and observability.
• Build systems that help customers discover, understand, monitor, and protect human and non-human identities.
• Help define how Vectra models AI agents, service accounts, workloads, OAuth integrations, tokens, and other machine identities.
• Apply expertise in how customers build, deploy, authenticate, authorise, and permission AI agents and automated workloads.
• Partner with Security Research and Product Management to turn evolving attack techniques and customer problems into durable product capabilities.
• Correlate identity signals with network, cloud, and SaaS telemetry to reveal activity isolated controls may miss.
• Help define and execute technical strategy for Identity products, services, data models, and engineering practices.
• Lead design and code reviews, identify technical risks early, and maintain a high bar for reliability, security, observability, and maintainability.
• Work across team and service boundaries, partnering with Data Platform, Cloud Platform, Data Science, SRE and others.
• Engage with Product, field teams, and customers to understand deployment patterns, security concerns, and emerging use cases.
• Mentor engineers, share knowledge broadly, and help develop technical leadership across the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Mentoring

Production systems

Security

Identity domain

AI agents

Workloads

Code reviews

Observability

Job description

Vectra AI in Dublin, Ireland, seeks a Staff Software Engineer for its Identity Domain to provide technical leadership across identity telemetry, analytics, and security capabilities. You will own end-to-end delivery from ingestion to detections and observability, mentoring engineers and shaping product strategy.

The role focuses on human, machine, and non-human identities, including AI agents, service accounts, and workloads, with emphasis on secure, scalable cloud services and strong