Software Engineer - Frontend (Staff+) at Cogent Security | CA, US | Rezi

Software Engineer - Frontend (Staff+) at Cogent Security

Software Engineer - Frontend (Staff+)

Cogent Security · CA, US

3 weeks ago

Software Engineer - Frontend (Staff+)

Cogent Security · CA, US

23 days ago
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About the Role

As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will own the frontend platform and experience that enables customers to visualize, understand, and act on complex security data with confidence. This is a Staff+ caliber role where you will set the technical direction for a brand-new platform, design the frontend infrastructure, build "golden" component libraries, and make the platform AI-friendly, all while continuing to ship customer-facing features. You’ll combine deep architectural thinking with hands-on development, ensuring that our frontend stack is both elegant and resilient as we scale. Over time, you’ll help mentor other frontend engineers and we will build a team around the foundations you create.

Responsibilities

  • Define Frontend Architecture – Establish the core architecture and patterns for our web applications, laying the foundation for long-term scalability and performance.
  • Build Golden Libraries & Platform – Create reusable component libraries and tooling that set the standard for quality and enable rapid, consistent development across the team.
  • Build AI-Driven, User-Focused Features – While setting up core frontend infrastructure, design and deliver high-impact features that seamlessly integrate AI-powered capabilities, ensuring clarity, usability, and reliability for complex security workflows.
  • Mentor and Influence – Serve as a mentor and technical leader for future frontend engineers; help us grow a team that values craftsmanship and excellence.
  • Drive Engineering Craftsmanship – Uphold high standards of code quality, attention to detail, and thoughtful design. Balance speed with sustainable engineering practices.

Requirements

  • Have operated at Staff+ level (Staff, Senior Staff, or Principal Frontend Engineer) at some point in your career.
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern web application architecture.
  • Strong background in frontend infrastructure—component libraries, build systems, state management, and performance optimization.
  • Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, owning projects end-to-end with minimal oversight
  • Exceptional attention to detail and a passion for engineering craftsmanship.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills; thrive in fast-paced, high-impact environments.

Skills

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Modern web application architecture
  • Frontend infrastructure
  • Component libraries
  • Build systems
  • State management
  • Performance optimization

Experience Level

  • Staff+
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience

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.
  • Since coming out of stealth, Cogent has experienced rapid growth.
  • We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.
  • We’re backed by Greylock 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.