Software Engineer - Storage Infrastructure (Senior+)
Cogent Security2 months ago
Base Salary
$100k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Standardize backup, restore, retention, and encryption policies across Aurora/RDS, ClickHouse, and AWS MSK.
- Build storage observability dashboards for capacity, performance, replication lag, and cost.
- Create a Storage Operations Agent for incident triage, slow-query investigation, and remediation workflows.
Requirements
- Have deep experience with Aurora RDS, ClickHouse, Kafka/AWS MSK, and PostgreSQL.
- Have experience with table formats and lakehouse patterns, including Apache Iceberg.
- Demonstrate strong coding skills in Python and Go.
- Have infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform.
- Have 3–6 years of experience at a successful technology company.
- Preferably have 1–2 years of experience at a data-focused startup such as Databricks or Snowflake.
- Bonus experience includes S3, Google Cloud Storage, Google BigQuery, AWS Athena, Presto, Parquet, VectorDB, Turbopuffer, PuppyGraph, or observability infrastructure.
Benefits
- California applicants are eligible for a stated annual base salary range of $100,000–$300,000.
- Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
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.