Principal Software Engineer
Cognite - AI for Industry1 day ago
Oslo, NorwayStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect and build authentication and authorization services that protect customer data.
- Design and scale resilient gRPC and HTTP APIs and microservices on Kubernetes.
- Write maintainable backend code and evolve service architecture for product growth.
- Lead threat modeling, performance tuning, reliability engineering, monitoring, and incident response initiatives.
- Own production services from design through deployment and operation.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate across teams on the technical roadmap.
Requirements
- Significant experience building and operating distributed backend systems in a modern typed language.
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin.
- Deep expertise in authentication and authorization concepts, including OIDC, OAuth2, RBAC, and ABAC.
- Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch and cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- Proven experience owning production services through design, development, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
- Collaborative, pragmatic communication skills and a desire to mentor others.
Benefits
- Diverse international organization with a focus on diversity, equality, and inclusion.
- Modern working environment with a flat structure and direct access to decision-makers.
- Opportunities to work with experts on ambitious projects across industries.
- Private health services through Cognite Care.
- Subsidized canteen lunch.
- Exclusive coffee bar.
- Broad mental and physical health offering and free membership to the on-site gym.
- Pet-friendly access to the Robot Garden.
Tech Stack
About Cognite - AI for Industry
Cognite builds an industrial data and AI platform used by energy, manufacturing, and power & utilities companies to integrate OT/IT data and deploy AI at scale. Its flagship product, Cognite Data Fusion, is sold as enterprise SaaS with services for implementation and Industrial AI agents. Founded in 2016 and privately held, the company focuses on asset-intensive operations and Industrial DataOps.