Senior Platform Engineer: AI Infra & DevOps

Vectara; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vectara is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to help build and operate the core infrastructure powering our retrieval-augmented generation and agentic AI platform. You’ll implement IaaC and Helm charts, drive high availability, scalability, and automation, and participate in on-call rotations addressing customer tickets.

You will collaborate with Field Engineering to support PoCs and production applications used by millions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer focusing on backend systems.
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Responsibilities

• Proficiency in AI-assisted coding and coordinating multiple tasks.
• Drive infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and monitoring/alerting pipelines.
• Collaborate with Field Engineering to support PoCs and platform deployments in customer Cloud VPCs and on-prem.
• Deploy, scale, and optimize ML/NLP workloads and model inference.
• 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.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure backend services and platform components.

Skills

Backend systems

Platform engineering

DevOps

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure/Onprem)

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability tools

ML workloads

Data infrastructure

Go

Python

Java

IaC

Customer support

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/EFK

Kafka

Spark

Airflow

Terraform

Pulumi

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Vectara is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to help build and operate the core infrastructure powering our retrieval-augmented generation and agentic AI platform. You’ll implement IaaC and Helm charts, drive high availability, scalability, and automation, and participate in on-call rotations addressing customer tickets.

You will collaborate with Field Engineering to support PoCs and production applications used by millions.