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Software Engineer - Infrastructure (Senior+)

Cogent · San Francisco, CA · Remote

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About Cogent

Vulnerability response at the speed of AI. Cogent. Backed by Greylock.

About the role

Build and optimize our data platform, with a focus on storage-level optimizations across Clickhouse and Postgres Make our product deployable on-prem to unlock onboarding for large customers - the last mile needed to land seven-figure accounts

More about this role

Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale. Cogent's "AI Taskforce" assesses petabytes of enterprise data to remediate these issues before critical breaches occur.

To stay at the cutting edge, we blend frontier research with real-world execution. Alongside our core product work, Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing the research horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality. We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.

We're backed by Greylock & Bain Capital Ventures, and we've built a team with the best minds in applied AI. Our team is comprised of people from:

Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo

Unicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, Coinbase

World class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, Zscaler

Preeminent research labs like Deepmind and SAIL

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior+ Infrastructure Engineer to help build a...

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