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About the Role
Cogna is building an AI-powered Software Factory for critical industries to solve pressing operational challenges. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining the foundational platform and cloud architecture that supports all engineering teams and the product.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve cloud infrastructure and internal platform (Azure/Kubernetes-based), including service-to-service communication and workflow orchestration layers.
- Make architectural decisions that shape how Cogna builds and operates software.
- Work within and contribute to the Go/Python/TypeScript codebase.
- Own and evolve build, infrastructure-as-code, and delivery systems, optimizing for scalability, hermeticity, and developer velocity.
- Implement and own security controls, identity and access management systems, and network configuration policies across Kubernetes environments.
- Improve and drive observability by implementing logging, tracing, and alerting systems.
- Partner with internal teams to improve resilience, automate toil, and reduce lead time to deployment.
- Drive root cause analysis and reliability improvements from incidents.
Requirements
- Proficient in writing maintainable, testable, and scalable code in production environments.
- Strong foundational software engineering skills, including data structures, concurrency, time/space complexity, and performance.
- Systems-level thinking: Able to reason about distributed systems under failure, scale, and load and design resilient abstractions.
- Familiar with networks, operating systems, compilers, storage systems, or distributed services.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
- Deep operational experience with PostgreSQL in production, including performance tuning, schema evolution, multi-tenant design, and reliability under load.
- Security-first mindset: Familiar with principles like least privilege, secrets management, threat modeling, and embedding security controls.
- Comfortable partnering with other engineers, product managers, sales, marketing, IT, and support.
- Excited about using AI-assisted development tools and integrating AI into engineering workflows.
Skills
- Python
- TypeScript
- Go
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- gRPC
- Temporal
- Dagster
- Bazel
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- Datadog
- PostgreSQL
- AI-assisted development
Location
- Chancery Lane office
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Benefits
- Competitive salary and share option plan
- 25 days annual leave, plus public holidays
- Excellent pension scheme, company contribution fixed at 7.5%
- Private healthcare, including family cover and pre-existing conditions
- Access to a gym and fitness classes in our office building
About the Company
- Cogna's mission is to give critical industries their own AI-powered Software Factory.
- Founded to address inefficiencies, fragile legacy systems, and outdated working methods in essential sectors like energy, logistics, and manufacturing.
- Experienced incredible customer traction and revenue growth since launch in May 2023.
- Backed by leading VCs, including Notion Capital and Hoxton Ventures.
- Building a world-class team to tackle significant challenges.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to building a diverse team that reflects the industries and societies we serve.
- Encourage applications even if experience doesn’t match every requirement.