Cognition

Cognition

Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specified$260k-$300kDetected 74 days ago
AWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringIncident Response

About the role

  • We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.
  • Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.
  • When something goes wrong, it goes wrong for all of them at once.

Responsibilities

  • Building Devin is just the first step-our hardest challenges still lie ahead.
  • If you're excited to solve some of the world's biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us.
  • You will own both the production reliability of our user-facing products and the platform engineering that lets our team ship quickly and confidently.
  • Lead incident response with speed and clarity.
  • Build the runbooks and tooling that make on-call sustainable and effective.
  • Own the deployment pipelines, release infrastructure, and internal developer tooling that let the team ship fast without breaking things.
  • Define and own SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for Devin and Windsurf.

Requirements

  • Proficiency with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent)

Nice to have

  • Enough product empathy to understand what reliability means from a user's perspective, not just an infrastructure one
  • Experience with developer-facing products or platforms is a strong plus
  • Small, highly selective team shipping products used by hundreds of thousands of developers daily

Skills

  • Manage cloud infrastructure through code.

Compensation

  • $260,000 - $300,000 + significant early-stage equity

Benefits

  • We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
  • Build the monitoring, alerting, and observability systems that give the team a clear, honest picture of service health at all times.
  • Medical, Dental, Vision: Fully paid for you and your dependents
  • Perks: Private chef, cozy slippers, endless snacks, and more

Company info

  • Partner closely with product and engineering teams to build reliability in from the start.
  • Be the person who catches the single point of failure in the architecture review before it becomes a page at 2am.
  • WE ARE AN APPLIED AI LAB BUILDING END-TO-END SOFTWARE AGENTS.
  • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any.

Equal opportunity

  • Cognition is an equal opportunity employer.
  • equal opportunity employer.
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