Cognitiv
Software Engineer, Backend
Bellevue, WA
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$13,104 more — $143,104 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $143,104 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Are you ready to revolutionize the advertising industry?
- At Cognitiv, we are not just another AdTech company—we are industry trailblazers redefining media buying with our Deep Learning Advertising Platform. Since 2015, we have harnessed the power of cutting-edge deep learning technology and data science to transform how brands connect with their customers. Our mission? To bring intelligence to advertising and
Responsibilities
- Own Feature Delivery: Take responsibility for a feature from kickoff through post-launch support, owning the release plan, branch strategy, canary, and automated rollback.
- Contribute to Design: Author design docs for single-feature or single-service work that incorporate cost, scale, and rollback considerations. Connect features to OKRs or user metrics and advocate for small UX improvements.
- Collaborate & Mentor: Facilitate design or planning meetings for the team, build trust with adjacent teams through reliable follow-through, and mentor interns or new hires on the codebase and processes.
- As a Backend Software Engineer on the Core team, you will take on substantial platform challenges and carry them end-to-end from design through production.
Requirements
- Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, or improving developer workflows, documentation, or internal tooling.
Nice to have
- Are you ready to revolutionize the advertising industry?
- Now, we're growing!
- Every campaign on our DSP flows through this platform-managing budgets, pacing, strategies, creatives, and configuration while feeding vital controls to high-scale downstream systems.
- You will translate business and performance requirements into reliable, production-ready software across our campaign management systems while driving code quality, system stability, and steady engineering progress.
- In this role, success is measured by the quality, reliability, and consistency of your engineering contributions.
- Recognize edge cases and propose straightforward solutions with moderate guidance.
- Strengthen Reliability:
- Keep service SLOs green by adding missing alerts and dashboards proactively.
Skills
- .NET Core (C#), SQL/Postgres, ClickHouse, AWS, DataDog
- Required Experience & Capabilities
- Data Systems: Hands-on experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL/SQL) and high-volume data stores.
- Bonus Points
- Adtech/RTB Experience: Background in real-time bidding, ad serving, or similarly latency-sensitive, high-throughput systems is a plus.
Compensation
- $130,000 - $170,000 USD Base Salary + Equity
Benefits
- Base salary is just one part of your total rewards at Cognitiv-you'll also receive equity and a comprehensive benefits package.
- Medical, Dental and Vision plan for US employees & Extended Health Benefits for Canadian employees
- 12 weeks paid parental leave + 4 weeks WFH
- Unlimited PTO + Work-From-Anywhere August
- Equity for all employees
- Health & wellness stipend + cell phone reimbursement
- Parking (CA, WA, Vancouver offices) & pre-tax commuter benefits
Company info
- At Cognitiv, we are not just another AdTech company-we are industry trailblazers redefining media buying with our Deep Learning Advertising Platform.
- Since 2015, we have harnessed the power of cutting-edge deep learning technology and data science to transform how brands connect with their customers.
- As a part of Cognitiv, you will be at the forefront of AI-driven advertising solutions, driving change and achieving remarkable growth in a rapidly evolving industry.
- As our scope expands, we're looking for engineers who want to own meaningful platform architecture rather than take on narrow subsystem tickets.
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