Cognition

Security Engineer

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28 days ago

Base Salary

$260k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and harden sandboxing, isolation, and runtime controls for Devin’s execution of untrusted code.
  • Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, vulnerability management, and product and infrastructure security across Devin, Windsurf, and their underlying infrastructure.
  • Build internal security systems for secrets management, identity and access, dependency security, and detection.
  • Build the detection pipeline, lead incident response, and drive systemic remediation after security events.
  • Partner with go-to-market and legal teams on compliance and customer trust initiatives.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience across product security, infrastructure security, and detection and response.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in Python, Rust, and Go and experience owning complex systems codebases.
  • Practical experience securing Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, or Azure, and multi-tenant compute environments.
  • Hands-on experience hardening complex modern web applications.
  • Experience with threat modeling, adversarial analysis, and secure system design.
  • Experience leading incidents end to end and driving follow-up fixes.
  • Experience with security challenges involving autonomous agents and AI-native developer tools.
  • Prior experience at a frontier AI lab, applied AI company, or developer tools company.
  • BS, MS, or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline from a highly selective program.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $260,000–$300,000 plus significant early-stage equity.
  • Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee and dependents.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Perks include a private chef, cozy slippers, and endless snacks.
Cognition

About Cognition

51-200 employees

Makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We’re building collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower engineering teams to strive for more ambitious goals.

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