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.
Position Overview
Help us build great software that protects our customers around the world from an ever-increasing number of cyber attacks!
As part of the Engineering team, Software Engineering Interns will work directly on Vectra's platform to build or enhance features that help solve customer problems. You'll work side-by-side with other interns and dedicated, experienced engineers as your assigned mentors. You will have ownership of a high-impact project for the length of the internship (which is typically a 12-week program, depending on your school's end and start dates).
Our goal is to create a robust and impactful learning experience that gives candidates a better feel for the day-to-day skills and challenges you will experience in a full-time software engineering team. Working in a modern software company like Vectra you can also expect to learn how to deliver software end-to-end including understanding builds, automated tests, deployments, monitoring, and alerting.
Responsibilities
To be able to work on high-impact software projects, you will need to:
- Be comfortable writing and shipping code daily
- Contribute to automated testing and other parts of end-to-end software delivery
- Work collaboratively in a team with other interns and senior engineers
- Evaluate and identify the correct approaches or technologies to use to solve problems
We will present options to interns for different impactful summer projects that align with the team's interests and skills (e.g. frontend/backend, data engineering, etc.). Please speak with us more to learn more about past projects that interns have delivered!
Qualifications
- Required
- Current student working on BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science (or similar engineering subject)
- Experience with object oriented programming and data structures
- Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments
- Experience with a source control system, preferably Git
- Internship is in the summer only
- Preferred
- Knowledge of networking and security fundamentals
- Understanding of databases beyond basic queries and interaction
- Experience with REST APIs
- Performance tuning skills
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.
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What We Do
Vectra® is the leader in threat detection and response – from cloud and data center workloads to user and IoT devices. Its Cognito® platform accelerates threat detection and investigation using AI to enrich network metadata it collects and stores with the right context to detect, hunt and investigate known and unknown threats in real time. Vectra offers four applications on the Cognito platform to address high-priority use cases. Cognito Stream™ sends security-enriched metadata to data lakes and SIEMs. Cognito Recall™ is a cloud-based application to store and investigate threats in enriched metadata. Cognito Detect™ uses AI to reveal and prioritize hidden and unknown attackers at speed. And Cognito Detect for Office 365 and Azure AD™ finds and stops attacks in enterprise SaaS applications and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. For more information, visit vectra.ai.
