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Cogent SecurityPosted 3 weeks ago

Software Engineer - Infrastructure (Senior+)

$100,000–$300,000 year

RemoteUnited States

Full TimeSenior LevelStartup

Job Summary

Build and optimize the data platform with storage-level improvements across Clickhouse and Postgres. Harden security systems and make the product deployable on-prem to support large enterprise onboarding. Drive large-scale infrastructure projects end-to-end while establishing an agent-first platform layer that enables secure, reliable execution for AI agents. Operate across stakeholders in a small, fast-growing Core Platform pod to protect the company and customers against external and internal threats. This early-stage, high-ownership role blends frontier research with real-world execution for Fortune 500 partners.

Required Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience
  • deep core infrastructure expertise
  • strong hands-on coding
  • Hands-on AWS experience
  • Experience with Clickhouse Cloud at the serving layer
  • Real depth in Spark and micro-batching
  • A track record of driving large-scale projects across multiple stakeholders
  • Experience building in an AI-forward capacity
  • agentic coding fundamentals
  • Startup or early-stage background (up to ~200 people)
  • blended with large-company experience

Desired Qualifications

  • Prior startup founder experience
  • API gateway auth experience with Envoy or Istio
  • A spike in GCP and Azure
  • SRE strength: agent-forward, but able to operationalize, debug, and triage
  • Familiarity with Hashicorp Vault, MicroVM (Runloop), and SPIFFE / SPIRE for agent identity

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