Software Engineer - Storage Infrastructure (Senior+)
Cogent SecurityVulnerability Management company
San Francisco, United States$100,000 - $300,000Senior
Bain Capital Ventures
Greylock Partners
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About the role
TL;DR
Build and operate data storage, backup, and observability infrastructure for AI cybersecurity agents.
- •Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity.
- •We are hiring a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer to own how we store, protect, and operate data at scale.
- •You'll build the backup, observability, and operations layer across our relational, streaming, and analytical stores.
- •Key Responsibilities Standardize backup, restore, retention, and encryption policies across Aurora / RDS, Clickhouse, and MSK.
- •Build storage observability dashboards for capacity, performance, replication, lag, and cost.
- •Create a Storage Operations Agent for incident triage, slow-query investigation, and remediation workflows.
- •Requirements Deep experience with data stores: Aurora RDS, Clickhouse, Kafka / AWS MSK, and Postgres.
- •Experience with table formats and lakehouse patterns, including Iceberg.
- •Strong coding in Python and Golang.
- •Infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform. 3-6 years at a successful tech company.
Required skills
PythonGoTerraformPostgreSQLApache KafkaAWS
Nice-to-have skills
S3
Domain expertise
cybersecuritydeveloper-toolsai
Tech stack
PythonGoTerraformPostgreSQLS3
