Senior Platform Engineer - AI Infra & Scale

Vectara; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Vectara, a leader in AI agent platforms, seeks a Senior/Staff Platform Software Engineer to build scalable core infrastructure for AI-powered search and assistants. You will own backend systems, design secure services, and drive reliability and performance at scale.

You will mentor engineers, lead architecture reviews, and advance CI/CD, observability, and DevOps practices across distributed ML/NLP workloads in production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend systems experience with Java and Python.
• Deep experience with cloud environments, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability tools.
• Experience with distributed systems and ML platforms in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead code, system design, and architecture reviews while mentoring team members.
• Design secure backend services, drive CI/CD, and manage ML/NLP workloads.
• Champion best practices in code quality, testing, and DevOps culture.

Skills

Java

Python

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Observability

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

ML/NLP workloads

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Vectara, a leader in AI agent platforms, seeks a Senior/Staff Platform Software Engineer to build scalable core infrastructure for AI-powered search and assistants. You will own backend systems, design secure services, and drive reliability and performance at scale.

You will mentor engineers, lead architecture reviews, and advance CI/CD, observability, and DevOps practices across distributed ML/NLP workloads in production.