Vectara

Platform Engineer

Vectara

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Palo Alto • California • United States

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Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGRPCJavaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonPyTorchTerraform

About the role

  • Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm) for our AWS EKS and GCP GKE clusters, plus on-premises deployments (including Tanzu and air-gapped environments).
  • Own CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bazel, ArgoCD) and drive GitOps adoption.
  • Deploy, scale, and optimize ML/NLP inference workloads (vLLM, PyTorch, GPU scheduling with various Kubernetes scalers).
  • Build and improve observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Collaborate with Field Engineering to support PoCs and platform deployments in customer cloud VPCs and on-prem environments.
  • Contribute to backend services (Java 21, Python, gRPC) and platform features.
  • Improve system reliability, scalability, and developer experience across the engineering org.

Requirements

  • 2+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or backend infrastructure roles.
  • Strong Kubernetes experience (deployment, debugging, scaling — not just `kubectl apply`).
  • Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code: Terraform, Helm, or Pulumi.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure also valued).
  • Proficiency in one or more of: Go, Python, Java. Comfortable reading and contributing to backend codebases.
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Bazel, ArgoCD, or similar).
  • Solid fundamentals in Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
Benefits
  • 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision for employees.
  • Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA).
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time and holidays.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
  • Company virtual happy hours and fun team building activities and more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
infrastructure-as-codeTerraformHelmAWS EKSGCP GKECI/CDGitOpsML/NLPJavaPython
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationreliability improvementscalability enhancementdeveloper experience