Software Engineer - Developer Experience

San Francisco, CA · Remotefull time

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$100k–$300k

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Cogent Security Software Engineer - Developer Experience at Cogent Security to own the software delivery lifecycle including build, CI/CD, and provisioning systems. Build systems enabling agents to autonomously build, deploy, test, and verify code.

Responsibilities

We're hiring a Developer Experience Engineer on our Core Platform team to own the software delivery lifecycle - the build, CI/CD, and provisioning systems that let both engineers and agents ship securely and fast. You'll build the systems that take code from idea to production, including the infrastructure that lets agents build, deploy, test, and verify autonomously.
This is a hands-on role for someone who has built developer and delivery infrastructure at an AI or high-growth startup and wants to define how autonomous agents move code to production.
Build an agent development experience that streamlines idea to production, letting agents build, deploy, test, and verify code autonomously
Build a self-hosted software builder, a secure GitHub Actions Runner alternative that meets our compliance requirements
Adopt and operate a solution to provision infrastructure securely

Qualification

2-4 years at an AI startupBuild tooling experiencePrior startup founder experienceFor California Based Applicants

Required

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, plus 2-4 years at a successful high-growth tech company

Preferred

Self-hosting experience across GitHub and ECR
Build tooling experience: Pants, uv, e2b, pico
Prior startup founder experience
A secondary spike in Application Security
For California Based Applicants
The standard base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $300,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

Benefits

Equity/RSU
Annual Bonus

Company

Cogent Security

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10000+ employees

Industrial

Founded 1892

Source: ashby

Active within the past hour

Remote-friendly

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