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Dublin, Éire / Ireland
Hybrid
Vectra® is the leader in AI-driven threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises.
The Vectra AI Platform delivers integrated signal across public cloud, SaaS, identity, and data center networks in a single platform. Powered by patented Attack Signal Intelligence, it empowers security teams to rapidly prioritize, investigate and respond to the most advanced cyber-attacks. With 35 patents in AI-driven threat detection and the most vendor references in MITRE D3FEND, organizations worldwide rely on the Vectra AI to move at the speed and scale of hybrid attackers. For more information, visit www.vectra.ai.
Staff Software Engineer – Identity Domain
About Vectra AI
Vectra AI is transforming cybersecurity through AI-driven threat detection and response. Our platform brings together network, identity, cloud, SaaS, and security telemetry to uncover attacker behaviour, identify risk, and help security teams investigate and respond before threats become breaches.
Identity is changing rapidly. Alongside human users, organisations increasingly rely on AI agents, service accounts, workloads, applications, API tokens, and other non-human identities to access systems and act autonomously. These technologies create enormous opportunity, but also a rapidly expanding attack surface.
Vectra’s Identity Domain is responsible for detecting and reducing identity-based risk across identity providers and SaaS environments, including human, machine, and non-human identities.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership within Vectra AI’s Identity Domain, with particular expertise in the emerging security challenges created by AI agents, machine identities, and non-human identities (NHIs).
This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer who combines strong software engineering with deep curiosity about how customers build and operate modern identity systems.
You will need to understand how AI agents are created, deployed, authenticated, permissioned, and connected to enterprise systems and translate that understanding into security capabilities that protect customers as this new attack surface evolves.
The Identity team owns end-to-end delivery: from ingesting and normalising identity telemetry, through analytics and detection, to publishing detections and findings and making identity observability data available across the Vectra platform.
You will lead complex engineering initiatives across that lifecycle, remain hands-on with architecture and code, and help teams make strong technical decisions while delivering reliable customer outcomes.
What You’ll Do
What You’ll Bring
Required
Preferred
What Success Looks Like
Why This Role Matters
The definition of identity is changing. Increasingly, the actor accessing sensitive enterprise systems may be an application, workload, automation, or AI agent acting autonomously and with significant permissions.
Securing this world requires understanding not only whether an identity authenticated, but what it is, what it can access, how it normally behaves, and whether its actions make sense in context.
As a Staff Software Engineer in the Identity Domain, you’ll help Vectra solve that problem end to end, from the data we ingest, through the detections we create, to the findings and observability our customers depend on.
Vectra provides a comprehensive total rewards package that supports the financial, physical, mental and overall health of our employees and their families. Compensation includes competitive base pay, incentive plan eligibility, and participation in the employee equity plan (stock options). Specific benefits offered varies by location, but commonly include health care insurance, income protection / life insurance, access to retirement savings plans, behavioral & emotional wellness services, generous time away from work, and a comprehensive employee recognition program.
Vectra is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
