Software Engineer - Infrastructure (Senior+)

About CogentCogent 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. Alongside our core product work, 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, WaterlooUnicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, CoinbaseWorld class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, ZscalerPreeminent research labs like Deepmind and SAILAbout The RoleWe're hiring a Senior+ Infrastructure Engineer to help build a secure, reliable, cost-effective, and agent-forward foundation for running Cogent's products and services. You'll join a small, fast-growing Core Platform pod (that includes infrastructure, security, and compliance) and work hands-on across our data platform, our security systems, and the platform layer our agents use to build and ship the product. Ultimately you'll help keep the company, our customers, and our employees protected against external and internal threats.This is an early-stage, high-ownership role for an engineer who has built core infrastructure at startup scale and can operate across many stakeholders.What You'll DoBuild and optimize our data platform, with a focus on storage-level optimizations across Clickhouse and PostgresMake our product deployable on-prem to unlock onboarding for large customers - the last mile needed to land seven-figure accountsHarden our security systemsBuild an agent-first infra and platform layer, since agents will build our product and need a foundation they can rely onDrive large-scale infrastructure projects end-to-end across a variety of stakeholdersAbout You5-7 years of software engineering experience with deep core infrastructure expertise and strong hands-on codingHands-on AWS experienceExperience with Clickhouse Cloud at the serving layerReal depth in Spark and micro-batchingA track record of driving large-scale projects across multiple stakeholdersExperience building in an AI-forward capacity, with agentic coding fundamentalsStartup or early-stage background (up to ~200 people), ideally blended with large-company experienceBonus PointsPrior startup founder experienceAPI gateway auth experience with Envoy or IstioSRE strength: agent-forward, but able to operationalize, debug, and triageFamiliarity with Hashicorp Vault, MicroVM (Runloop), and SPIFFE / SPIRE for agent identityFor California Based ApplicantsThe standard base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $300,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.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.