About the Role
We are hiring a Developer Experience Engineer on our Core Platform team to own the software delivery lifecycle, including build, CI/CD, and provisioning systems. This role focuses on building systems that enable secure and rapid code deployment from idea to production, and the infrastructure for autonomous agent operations.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Skills
- GitHub Actions
- Harness
- Spacelift
- Terraform
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Self-hosting
- GitHub
- ECR
- Pants
- uv
- e2b
- pico
- Artifactory
- Application Security
Location
- California
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 - $300,000 annually
About the Company
- Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity.
- AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale.
- Cogent's "AI Taskforce" assesses petabytes of enterprise data to remediate these issues before critical breaches occur.
- We blend frontier research with real-world execution.
- Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing the research horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality.
- We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.
- We're backed by Greylock & Bain Capital Ventures, and we've built a team with the best minds in applied AI.
- Our team is comprised of people from Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo
- Unicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, Coinbase
- World class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, Zscaler
- Preeminent research labs like Deepmind and SAIL
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
