Requirements
- 10+ years or equivalent technical leadership.
- 5+ years of production C++ experience in systems, infrastructure, networking, or similarly performance-sensitive environments.
- Meaningful Rust experience or demonstrated ability to build production-quality systems in Rust or another memory-safe systems language.
- Strong Python coding, debugging, automation, and code review experience.
- Experience developing and debugging software on Debian-based Linux or similar Linux environments.
- Hands-on protocol experience, including inspecting packet captures, using Wireshark or equivalent tools, and implementing or debugging parsing and serialization logic.
- Experience with substantial data-path technologies such as DPDK, XDP/AF_XDP, kernel-bypass networking, high-performance packet capture, or equivalent systems.
- Understanding of NIC queues, RSS, tunneling, offloads, routing, traffic steering, and the practical constraints of packet-processing hardware.
- Systems programming depth across Linux networking internals, allocators and memory ownership, data structures, concurrency, CPU/cache behavior, and performance diagnosis.
- Experience building reliable, maintainable systems where correctness, throughput, latency, and operational reliability all matter.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex systems using measurement, logs, traces, packet captures, profiling, and careful reasoning.
- Ownership mindset: able to take a problem, clarify ambiguity, make tradeoffs visible, and drive it to completion.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across distributed teams.
What We’re Looking For
The strongest candidates will be hands-on builders who are energized by hard systems problems. They should be comfortable moving fast, but not casually; quality, testability, maintainability, and performance all matter. We are especially interested in engineers who already use AI tools as part of their development workflow and can explain how they use them responsibly to improve speed, coverage, and understanding.
For Staff-level candidates, we are looking for engineers who can shape technical direction and raise the execution level of the team around them. Staff engineers should be able to lead domain designs, write clear architectural proposals, guide major technical tradeoffs through Vectra's architecture process, raise engineering standards, mentor others, and help establish durable data-plane ownership in India.
Education
B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
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.