Staff Software Engineer

Join Vectra AI as a Staff Software Engineer in the Identity Domain. In this senior individual contributor role, you will provide technical leadership and expertise in the emerging security challenges created by AI agents and non-human identities. You will lead complex engineering initiatives, design and deliver capabilities across the full identity lifecycle, and help define the technical strategy for identity products. You will also mentor engineers and engage with product, field teams, and customers to understand deployment patterns and security concerns.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex engineering initiatives across the lifecycle of identity systems, from telemetry ingestion to customer-visible detections.
• Design and deliver capabilities across the full Identity lifecycle, including telemetry ingestion, normalisation, enrichment, analytics, detection, findings, and observability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute technical strategy for Identity products, services, data models, and engineering practices.
• Strong judgment when balancing engineering quality, security, technical debt, customer needs, and business priorities

Requirements

• Strong expertise in distributed systems, architecture, coding, and technical problem solving
• Practical understanding of how organisations build, deploy, authenticate, and permission AI agents and automated systems
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise the effectiveness of teams around you
• Expertise in AI agents, machine identities, workload identities, service accounts, non-human identities, or closely related identity-security problems

Experience building reliable, observable cloud-based services

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives and influence technical decisions beyond your immediate team
• Significant professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems
• Strong understanding of modern identity systems, including authentication, authorisation, credentials, tokens, and privileged access
• A customer-oriented mindset and enthusiasm for understanding how technology is used in real-world environments

Cybersecurity product experience

• Experience with behavioural analytics, detection engineering, anomaly detection, or high-volume security telemetry
• Deep knowledge of Entra ID, OAuth/OIDC, SaaS identity ecosystems, workload identity, secrets, or machine-to-machine authentication
• Experience building security capabilities for AI agents or autonomous systems