Software Engineer - Infrastructure (Senior+)
Cogent Security2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$100k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and optimize the data platform, focusing on storage-level optimizations across ClickHouse and PostgreSQL.
- Make the product deployable on-premises to support onboarding large enterprise customers.
- Harden Cogent’s security systems.
- Build an agent-first infrastructure and platform layer for developing and shipping products.
- Drive large-scale infrastructure projects end-to-end across multiple stakeholders.
- Operationalize, debug, and triage infrastructure and platform systems.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of software engineering experience with deep core infrastructure expertise and strong hands-on coding skills.
- Hands-on AWS experience.
- Experience with ClickHouse Cloud at the serving layer.
- Deep experience with Spark and micro-batching.
- Track record of driving large-scale projects across multiple stakeholders.
- Experience building in an AI-forward capacity with agentic coding fundamentals.
- Startup or early-stage experience, ideally combined with large-company experience.
- Prior startup founder experience is a bonus.
- API gateway authentication experience with Envoy or Istio is a bonus.
- Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault, MicroVM/Runloop, and SPIFFE/SPIRE for agent identity is a bonus.
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About Cogent Security
Cogent Security builds AI-native vulnerability management software for enterprise security teams, using autonomous agents to analyze large-scale environment data and prioritize and remediate risk. The privately held company, founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, partners with Fortune 500 organizations and is backed by Greylock Partners. Its model centers on selling an enterprise platform and post-sales solutions that deploy at production scale.