Cognition
Site Reliability Engineer
San Francisco
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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.
Nice to have
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- SRE at Cognition means writing real code, not just configuring tools
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent)
- A track record of reducing toil systematically through automation, not just working around it
- 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
- The environment rewards engineers who are proactive, systematic, and treat reliability as a craft, not a checklist
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.
Company info
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any.
- WE ARE AN APPLIED AI LAB BUILDING END-TO-END SOFTWARE AGENTS.
Equal opportunity
- Cognition is an equal opportunity employer.
- equal opportunity employer.
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