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# Software Engineer - Infrastructure (Senior+)

- **Company:** Cogent Inc
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Data Infrastructure, Software Debugging, PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, Istio, Apache Spark, Hashicorp, Vertica, Api Gateway, Software Coding
- **Published:** August 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f2fa740176e11864

## About the Role

* 5-7 years of software engineering experience with deep core infrastructure expertise and strong hands-on coding
 * Hands-on AWS experience
 * Experience with Clickhouse Cloud at the serving layer
 * Real depth in Spark and micro-batching
 * A track record of driving large-scale projects across multiple stakeholders
 * Experience building in an AI-forward capacity, with agentic coding fundamentals
 * Startup or early-stage background (up to ~200 people), ideally blended with large-company experience, * Prior startup founder experience
 * API gateway auth experience with Envoy or Istio
 * SRE strength: agent-forward, but able to operationalize, debug, and triage
 * Familiarity with Hashicorp Vault, MicroVM (Runloop), and SPIFFE / SPIRE for agent identity

## Description

We're hiring a Senior+ Infrastructure Engineer to help build a secure, reliable, cost-effective, and agent-forward foundation for running Cogent's products and services. You'll join a small, fast-growing Core Platform pod (that includes infrastructure, security, and compliance) and work hands-on across our data platform, our security systems, and the platform layer our agents use to build and ship the product. Ultimately you'll help keep the company, our customers, and our employees protected against external and internal threats.

This is an early-stage, high-ownership role for an engineer who has built core infrastructure at startup scale and can operate across many stakeholders., * 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
 * Harden our security systems
 * Build an agent-first infra and platform layer, since agents will build our product and need a foundation they can rely on
 * Drive large-scale infrastructure projects end-to-end across a variety of stakeholders


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