Software Engineer - Developer Experience
$100,000–$300,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Build an agent development experience that streamlines code from idea to production, enabling autonomous agents to build, deploy, test, and verify. Construct a self-hosted software builder serving as a secure GitHub Actions Runner alternative while adopting and operating infrastructure provisioning solutions. This hands-on Developer Experience Engineer role on the Core Platform team defines how autonomous agents move code to production. You will work with CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions and Harness, leveraging Terraform for infrastructure-as-code in an agent-forward environment. The position supports Cogent's mission to create the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity by blending frontier research with real-world execution for Fortune 500 clients.
Required Qualifications
- Deep experience with CI/CD and build systems: GitHub Actions, Harness, Spacelift
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform
- Comfort working in an agent-forward environment with Claude Code and Codex
- 2-4 years at an AI startup
- 2-4 years at a successful high-growth tech company
Desired Qualifications
- Self-hosting experience across GitHub and ECR
- Build tooling experience: Pants, uv, e2b, pico
- Artifactory
- Prior startup founder experience
- A secondary spike in Application Security
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