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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. \nStaff Software Engineer - Identity Domain \nAbout Vectra AI \nVectra 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. \nIdentity 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. \nVectra’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. \nThe Opportunity \nWe 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). \nThis 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. \nYou 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. \nThe 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. \nYou 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. \n\nWhat You’ll Do \nDesign and deliver capabilities across the full Identity lifecycle: telemetry ingestion, normalisation, enrichment, analytics, detection, findings, and observability \nBuild systems that help customers discover, understand, monitor, and protect human and non-human identities \nHelp define how Vectra models AI agents, service accounts, workloads, OAuth integrations, tokens, and other machine identities \nApply expertise in how customers build, deploy, authenticate, authorise, and permission AI agents and automated workloads \nPartner with Security Research and Product Management to turn evolving attack techniques and customer problems into durable product capabilities \nCorrelate identity signals with network, cloud, and SaaS telemetry to reveal activity isolated controls may miss \nHelp define and execute technical strategy for Identity products, services, data models, and engineering practices \nLead design and code reviews, identify technical risks early, and maintain a high bar for reliability, security, observability, and maintainability \nWork across team and service boundaries, partnering with Data Platform, Cloud Platform, Data Science, SRE and others \nEngage with Product, field teams, and customers to understand deployment patterns, security concerns, and emerging use cases \nMentor engineers, share knowledge broadly, and help develop technical leadership across the team \nWhat You’ll Bring \nRequired \nSignificant professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems \nStrong expertise in distributed systems, architecture, coding, and technical problem solving \nDemonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives and influence technical decisions beyond your immediate team \nStrong understanding of modern identity systems, including authentication, authorisation, credentials, tokens, and privileged access \nExpertise in AI agents, machine identities, workload identities, service accounts, non-human identities, or closely related identity-security problems \nPractical understanding of how organisations build, deploy, authenticate, and permission AI agents and automated systems \nA customer-oriented mindset and enthusiasm for understanding how technology is used in real-world environments \nExperience building reliable, observable cloud-based services \nStrong judgment when balancing engineering quality, security, technical debt, customer needs, and business priorities \nDemonstrated ability to mentor engineers and raise the effectiveness of teams around you \nPreferred \nDeep knowledge of Entra ID, OAuth/OIDC, SaaS identity ecosystems, workload identity, secrets, or machine-to-machine authentication \nExperience building security capabilities for AI agents or autonomous systems \nExperience with behavioural analytics, detection engineering, anomaly detection, or high-volume security telemetry \nCybersecurity product experience \nWhat Success Looks Like \nVectra delivers differentiated security capabilities for AI agents and non-human identities \nThe Identity team moves efficiently from new telemetry ingestion to customer-visible detections, findings, and observability \nCustomers gain meaningful visibility into machine identities, their privileges, behaviour, and risk \nComplex initiatives land predictably with a consistently high engineering bar \nEngineers across the team grow through effective technical leadership and mentoring \nWhy This Role Matters \nThe 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. \nSecuring 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. \nAs 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. \nVectra provides a comprehensive total rewards package that supportsthe 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). 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