Software Engineer - Storage Infrastructure (Senior+)
$100,000–$300,000 year
RemoteUnited States
United StatesRemoteFull Time$100,000–$300,000 yearSenior LevelStartup
Full TimeSenior LevelStartup
Job Summary
Standardize backup, restore, retention, and encryption policies across Aurora/RDS, Clickhouse, and 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. Leverage deep experience with data stores, table formats, and infrastructure-as-code to own data storage at scale. Join Cogent's Core Platform team to make agentic security workflows a reality for Fortune 500 partners.
Required Qualifications
- Deep experience with data stores: Aurora RDS, Clickhouse, Kafka / AWS MSK, and Postgres
- Experience with table formats and lakehouse patterns, including Iceberg
- Strong coding in Python and Golang
- Infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform
- 3-6 years at a successful tech company (Senior, Staff+)
Desired Qualifications
- 1-2 years at a data-focused startup (Databricks, Snowflake)
- Object and analytical storage experience: S3, GCS, Google BigQuery, AWS Athena, Presto, Parquet
- Vector and graph stores: VectorDB, Turbopuffer, Puppygraph
- A secondary spike in Observability Infrastructure
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