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About the Role

Cogent is building a suite of backend services and integrations to power autonomous AI workers. We are seeking talented and ambitious Backend Senior and Staff Engineers to contribute to the Applied AI space.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement key backend and integration platform subsystems.
• Understand business goals, product, technology strategies, and customer requirements to implement supporting backend and integration platform subsystems.
• Adapt and evolve systems and plans to implement newly identified design partner and customer requirements.
• Adapt and evolve systems to implement non-functional requirements such as compliance, security, and enterprise integration.
• Lay down infrastructure foundations for growth and scalability.
• Prepare Cogent for future headcount, customer, and data growth by designing and building scalable infrastructure.
• Help create a robust engineering culture at Cogent.
• Onboard, support, and uplevel future team members.
• Participate in, provide feedback on, and iterate on the interview process as the team scales.
• Actively contribute to Engineering Excellence, Operational Excellence, and Recruiting initiatives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader.
• Experience overseeing and contributing to multiple backend systems and infrastructure projects.
• Expertise in architecting, developing, and scaling backend systems, including stateless and stateful architectures, to support high-performance, enterprise-level applications.
• Proven experience with distributed systems, microservices, and serverless architectures, ensuring robustness, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Strong knowledge of backend programming languages such as Python, Go, or similar.
• Deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization.
• Experience with API design and implementation (RESTful and/or gRPC).
• Experience integrating with frontend systems, data platforms, and third-party services.
• Solid experience with containerization, orchestration, and deployment technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines in multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Skills

• Python
• Go
• RESTful APIs
• gRPC
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure

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.
• Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing the research horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality.
• Cogent has experienced rapid growth since coming out of stealth.
• Cogent partners with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.
• Cogent is backed by Greylock.
• Cogent has built a team with the best minds in applied AI from top universities, high-growth companies, world-class cybersecurity experts, and preeminent research labs.

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.