Cogent Scientific
Backend Engineer (Member of Technical Staff)
San Francisco, CA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$100k-$300kDetected 617 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentDatabricksAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDAPI DevelopmentRESTgRPCAgentic AIResearch
About the role
- Laying down infrastructure foundations for growth and scalability
- Participate in, provide feedback on, and iterate interview process as we scale the team up
- Actively contribute to Engineering Excellence, Operational Excellence and Recruiting initiatives
Responsibilities
- Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity.
- We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.
- Design and implement key backend, integration platform subsystems
- Onboard, support and uplevel future team members
- Expertise in architecting, developing, and scaling backend systems, including both stateless and stateful architectures, to support high-performance, enterprise-level applications
- As we work with our first design partners, Cogent is building a suite of backend services and integrations that will power our autonomous AI workers.
- Understand business goals, product and technology strategies and customer requirements and implement supporting backend and integration platform subsystems to achieve them
Requirements
- 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, with a deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization
- Experience with API design and implementation (RESTful and/or gRPC), 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
- Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Compensation
- The standard base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $300,000 annually.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
Company info
- 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
- We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse company.
- To stay at the cutting edge, we blend frontier research with real-world execution.
- We are looking for talented, ambitious Backend Senior and Staff Engineers who are excited to build in the Applied AI space.
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