Staff Software Engineer - Identity & AI Security Lead

Vectra; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vectra AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Identity Domain to lead technical direction across identity‑related security capabilities. You will work on AI agent, machine identity, and non-human identity challenges, translating them into durable platform features with strong cross‑team collaboration.

You will remain hands-on architecting and coding while mentoring others, guiding end‑to‑end identity observability, telemetry, and detection across the Vectra platform.

Qualifications

• Significant professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong understanding of modern identity systems, authentication and authorization.

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.
• Lead design and code reviews, identify technical risks early, and maintain a high bar for reliability, security, observability, and maintainability.
• Engage with product, field teams, and customers to understand deployment patterns, security concerns, and emerging use cases.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Identity systems

AI agents

Customer mindset

Reliability

Job description

Vectra AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Identity Domain to lead technical direction across identity‑related security capabilities. You will work on AI agent, machine identity, and non-human identity challenges, translating them into durable platform features with strong cross‑team collaboration.

You will remain hands-on architecting and coding while mentoring others, guiding end‑to‑end identity observability, telemetry, and detection across the Vectra platform.