Software Engineer - Storage Infrastructure (Senior+)

San Francisco, CA · Remotefull time

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$100k–$300k

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Cogent Security Senior+ Infrastructure Engineer role focused on building secure, reliable, and cost-effective storage infrastructure and platform layers for AI-driven cybersecurity products. Responsibilities include optimizing data platforms, enabling on-prem deployments, hardening security systems, and driving large-scale infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

We're hiring a Senior+ Infrastructure Engineer to help build a secure, reliable, cost-effective, and agent-forward foundation for running Cogent's products and services. You'll join a small, fast-growing Core Platform pod (that includes infrastructure, security, and compliance) and work hands-on across our data platform, our security systems, and the platform layer our agents use to build and ship the product. Ultimately you'll help keep the company, our customers, and our employees protected against external and internal threats.
This is an early-stage, high-ownership role for an engineer who has built core infrastructure at startup scale and can operate across many stakeholders.
Build and optimize our data platform, with a focus on storage-level optimizations across Clickhouse and Postgres
Make our product deployable on-prem to unlock onboarding for large customers - the last mile needed to land seven-figure accounts
Harden our security systems
Build an agent-first infra and platform layer, since agents will build our product and need a foundation they can rely on
Drive large-scale infrastructure projects end-to-end across a variety of stakeholders

Qualification

Hands-on AWS experienceReal depth in Spark and micro-batchingPrior startup founder experienceSRE strengthFamiliarity with Hashicorp VaultFor California Based Applicants

Required

5-7 years of software engineering experience with deep core infrastructure expertise and 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, with agentic coding fundamentals
Startup or early-stage background (up to ~200 people), ideally blended with large-company experience

Preferred

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