Software Engineer, Infrastructure
CognitionAI Software company
San Francisco, United States$260,000 - $300,000Senior
Founders Fund
8VC
Lux Capital
Neo
Elad Gil
Definition Capital
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build and operate the core infrastructure for cutting-edge AI agents.
- •Infrastructure Engineers at Cognition build the foundational systems that power their AI products like Devin and Windsurf.
- •This role is for engineers passionate about reliability, scale, and building systems that other engineers love to build on.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and operate sandboxed compute environments for agent execution.
- •Build and maintain the developer platform, including CI/CD and deployment systems.
- •Drive reliability through SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- •Scale infrastructure to meet product growth demands.
- •Partner with product engineers to understand and meet system requirements.
- •Requirements Deep experience in designing and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure.
- •Hands-on proficiency with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and IaC tools like Terraform.
- •Strong software engineering fundamentals, particularly in Python.
- •Experience with system instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting.
- •Experience with sandboxing, network isolation, and secure multi-tenant compute.
Required skills
KubernetesTerraformCI/CDPythonAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerLinuxBash
Domain expertise
aideveloper-tools
Benefits & perks
equity, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) match
Tech stack
PythonKubernetesAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerCI/CDLinuxBash