Director, Data Platform & AI Engineering

Vectra AI, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 189,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Vectra AI, Inc. is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the Data Platform teams responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and analyzing petabytes of security telemetry daily. You will drive next-generation analytics and AI workloads while balancing reliability and speed.

The role emphasizes organizational leadership with architectural credibility, partnering with platform architects, and shaping platform strategy for AI-enabled security solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Experience building and operating large-scale data platforms in production.
• Experience with Databricks, Spark, and ML workloads in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams across multiple geographies.
• Own ingestion, processing, storage, and analysis of petabytes of telemetry daily.
• Set engineering best practices for data processing, schema evolution, data quality, and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product, Security Research, AI, Infrastructure, and Customer teams.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Data platforms

Spark / Databricks

ML/AI workloads

SRE / incident response

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Spark

LLM platforms

Feature stores

Vector storage

Model serving

Job description

Vectra AI, Inc. is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the Data Platform teams responsible for ingesting, processing, storing, and analyzing petabytes of security telemetry daily. You will drive next-generation analytics and AI workloads while balancing reliability and speed.

The role emphasizes organizational leadership with architectural credibility, partnering with platform architects, and shaping platform strategy for AI-enabled security solutions.