Senior Software Engineer - Network Protocols & Data Plane

About the role

This team builds the high-performance systems that ingest, process, parse, enrich, and deliver network metadata used by our detection, investigation, and response platform. This role sits at the center of Vectra's packet-processing architecture. You will work on the systems that receive network traffic, steer it through the right processing paths, extract meaningful protocol metadata, and deliver that data reliably through the platform at production scale.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, test, and maintain core network data-plane capabilities, including packet processing, protocol parsing, metadata extraction, and downstream delivery
• Improve scalable network data-path architecture on Linux, including packet ingestion, traffic steering, parser execution, metadata modeling, and downstream delivery
• Use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully to accelerate investigation, implementation, test generation, and code review while maintaining engineering rigor
• Work across parsing, serialization, metadata modeling, validation, performance, and downstream platform integration
• Build feedback loops and test harnesses that validate data-plane behavior end-to-end, not just in isolated parser tests

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• Data structures
• Python
• C++
• Linux
• Rust
• IPR
• PhD

Good to have

• Git
• ETL
• CI/CD
• Jenkins