Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer on our Core Platform team to own how we store, protect, and operate data at scale. You will build the backup, observability, and operations layer across our relational, streaming, and analytical stores, making it agent-forward. This is a hands-on role for an engineer with deep data infrastructure experience, ideally sharpened at a data-focused startup.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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+)
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

Skills

Python
Golang
Terraform
Iceberg
Aurora RDS
Clickhouse
Kafka / AWS MSK
Postgres
S3
GCS
Google BigQuery
AWS Athena
Presto
Parquet
VectorDB
Turbopuffer
Puppygraph

Location

California

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
Staff+

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.
To stay at the cutting edge, 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, and 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.