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Staff Software Engineer

Vectra
Location
Dublin, Ireland
Posted
12 days ago
Department
Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Significant professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems
  • Strong expertise in distributed systems, architecture, coding, and technical problem solving
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives and influence technical decisions beyond your immediate team
  • Strong understanding of modern identity systems, including authentication, authorisation, credentials, tokens, and privileged access
  • Expertise in AI agents, machine identities, workload identities, service accounts, non-human identities, or closely related identity-security problems
  • Practical understanding of how organisations build, deploy, authenticate, and permission AI agents and automated systems
Nice to have
  • 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
  • Experience with behavioural analytics, detection engineering, anomaly detection, or high-volume security telemetry
  • Cybersecurity product experience
What the job really is

As a Staff Software Engineer in Vectra AI's Identity Domain, you will lead technical initiatives focused on addressing security challenges related to AI agents and non-human identities. Your role involves designing and delivering capabilities across the identity lifecycle, collaborating with various teams, and mentoring engineers while ensuring the reliability and security of the systems you build.

Benefits
  • Competitive base pay
  • Incentive plan eligibility
  • Participation in the employee equity plan (stock options)
  • Health care insurance
  • Income protection / life insurance
  • Access to retirement savings plans
Things to weigh
  • No specific salary listed
  • Role involves significant technical leadership and mentoring responsibilities
  • Focus on emerging security challenges related to AI and non-human identities may require continuous learning and adaptation
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