Senior Platform Engineer — Backend & ML Infra (Equity)

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

Benefits offered by this job

100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision

HSA or FSA option

Generous PTO, holidays, and rest days

Professional development

Team building activities

Job summary

Vectara is hiring a Senior/Staff Platform Software Engineer to build and scale the core infrastructure powering our AI agent platform. You’ll craft robust services, automate deployments, and improve observability and reliability at scale.

You will lead architecture reviews, mentor teammates, and collaborate with product engineering and research to deploy ML/NLP workloads in production. This role emphasizes security, performance, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on backend systems and platform engineering.
• Proficiency in Java and Python.
• Deep experience with all computing environments (GCP, AWS, Onprem, or Azure).
• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, etc.).
• Experience working on ML platforms or supporting ML workloads in production.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems.
• Familiarity with data infrastructure (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Airflow).

Responsibilities

• Proficiency in AI-assisted coding; able to do multiple tasks at once and manage AI agents to execute quickly and thoughtfully.
• Lead code, system design, and architecture reviews while teaching and mentoring team members.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure backend services and platform components.
• Drive infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and monitoring/alerting pipelines.
• Collaborate with product engineering and research teams to deploy, scale, and optimize ML/NLP workloads.
• 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.

Skills

Java

Python

Backend systems

Platform engineering

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/EFK

Job description

Vectara is hiring a Senior/Staff Platform Software Engineer to build and scale the core infrastructure powering our AI agent platform. You’ll craft robust services, automate deployments, and improve observability and reliability at scale.

You will lead architecture reviews, mentor teammates, and collaborate with product engineering and research to deploy ML/NLP workloads in production. This role emphasizes security, performance, and developer experience.