--- title: 'Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Vectara' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-staff-software-engineer-vectara-united-states-n81ccffvv2kz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-05' --- # Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Vectara - **Company:** Vectara - **Location:** United States - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vectara/jobs/5469577008 ## Job description Role Overview: Vectara is seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Software Engineer with strong experience in backend development and modern DevOps practices. In this role, you’ll work on building and scaling the core infrastructure that powers our AI agent platform. You’ll help design robust services and scalable systems, with a focus on automation, observability, reliability, and performance. Key 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. 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). ## About Vectara ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Vectara provides an enterprise-grade platform for building AI agents and assistants powered by Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), enabling organizations to find meaning in their data with high accuracy and security. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, USA - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Dr. Tallat Shafaat (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Generative AI Platform - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (serves sectors including telecommunications, education, manufacturing, financial services, legal, and healthcare) - **Mission statement**: "To help the world find meaning" in vast data using generative AI. ## Products & Services - **Vectara Enterprise Agent Platform**: A platform for building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in enterprise data. Key features include: - **Context Accuracy**: Advanced context-engineering for retrieval, supporting multimodal data (text, tables, images). - **Policy-Led Enforcement**: Always-on governance to detect and correct hallucinations, enforce brand and compliance policies at runtime. - **Operate Your Way**: Deployable as SaaS, in a customer-managed VPC, or on-premise. Model-agnostic (BYOM) and fully hosted. - **Failure Analysis**: Tools for observability into real-world AI behavior. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Total Funding**: $73.5M (Series A, as of latest round) - **Last Funding Round**: $25M raised 2 years ago (approximately 2024) - **Key Investors**: Race Capital (lead, General Partner Alfred Chuang on board), Samsung NEXT, Fusion Fund, WVV Capital, Alumni Ventures, FPV Ventures (Managing Partner Pegah Ebrahimi on board), and 18+ others. - **Key Customers**: IEEE, Texas Instruments, SonoSim, Anywhere.re - **Growth Signals**: Recognized in five Gartner Hype Cycles™ for 2026; reported ability to increase support deflection from 33% to 95% for customers; scale from 3 to 300 agentic applications in less than a year. - **Competitors**: Hebbia, Pryon, Perplexity, LangChain, Jina. ## Competitive Advantages - **RAG Pioneer**: Pioneered enterprise-grade Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with industry-leading models for retrieval, generation, and hallucination detection. - **Best-in-Industry Accuracy**: Optimized for highly accurate AI agents, reducing hallucinations. - **Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance**: SOC 2 Type 2 certified and HIPAA compliant, with multiple deployment models (Cloud, VPC, On-Prem) to meet strict data control requirements. - **Model Agnostic**: Allows enterprises to bring their own model (BYOM), avoiding vendor lock-in. - **Developer Focus**: Offers testing tools, APIs, and open-source libraries designed for a great developer experience. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling Enterprise Adoption**: Moving customers from pilot to production at enterprise scale, supporting growth across multiple use cases without re-engineering. - **Agentic AI**: Focused on enabling enterprises to build and deploy AI agents for mission-critical applications. - **Precision and Reliability**: Continuously innovating to push generative AI technology to new heights of precision and reliability, with a strong emphasis on governance and observability. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes a collaborative, open, and accountable culture ("One Team"). Values nimbleness, customer focus, and continuous improvement ("If an idea doesn’t work, we learn from it and keep moving"). - **Global & Remote-Friendly**: Team of 50+ "Vectarans" worldwide. Offers flexible working hours and minimal meeting Fridays. US-based roles are remote (Bay Area preferred for some). Also has a role based in Pakistan. - **Comprehensive Benefits**: Includes comprehensive medical insurance, life & disability insurance, unlimited vacation, maternity/paternity leave, bereavement leave, annual global summit, monthly phone/internet stipend, home office stipend for remote employees, free snacks and beverages at HQ, and free gym access at HQ. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Actively values diversity and attracts talented individuals from all backgrounds, with a focus on fair compensation based on job level and location. - **Engineering Culture**: Described as a "developer’s dream" with a focus on building fun-to-use testing tools, APIs, and open-source libraries. Roles include Platform Engineering, ML Engineering, and Software Engineering. ## Sources 1. [vectara.com](https://www.vectara.com/company/about-us) 2. [vectara.com](https://www.vectara.com/) 3. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vectara) 4. [vectara.com](https://www.vectara.com/company/careers-and-culture) 5. 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