Cognition

Cognition

Security Engineer

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specified$260k-$300kDetected 122 days ago
PythonGoRustAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesCybersecurityIncident Response

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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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About the role

  • Devin executes arbitrary code on behalf of users across millions of sandboxed sessions.
  • Windsurf operates inside developer environments at scale.
  • Both products handle highly sensitive customer code, credentials, and infrastructure access.

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.
  • Security Engineers at Cognition own one of the most interesting security surfaces in the industry.
  • Own product and infrastructure security: Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, and vulnerability management across Devin, Windsurf, and the underlying infrastructure they run on.
  • Build security tooling that engineers actually use:
  • Build security tooling that engineers actually use: Create internal systems for secrets management, identity and access, dependency security, and detection that integrate naturally into how the team ships.
  • Lead incident response and detection: Build the detection pipeline, run incident response, and turn every event into systemic improvements.
  • Own product and infrastructure security:

Requirements

  • proficiency in Python, Rust, Go, and comfort owning complex systems codebases.
  • Degree from a top-tier university: BS, MS, or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline from a highly selective program.
  • Threat modeling and adversarial thinking: You can look at a system and quickly identify how it breaks

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.
  • Medical, Dental, Vision: Fully paid for you and your dependents

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.
  • Drive customer trust: Partner with go-to-market and legal teams to support compliance and customer trust initiatives. Build the controls that customers expect from a tool deeply embedded in their engineering workflow.

Equal opportunity

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