Cogent Security
CybersecurityDirect Ashby career site

Software Engineer - Storage Infrastructure (Senior+)

Pay
$100,000 – $300,000 per year
Location
San Francisco, CA (Remote) · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Director
Experience
3+ years
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Aurora RDS
  • ClickHouse
  • Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • Terraform
  • Python
  • Golang

Also useful

  • Iceberg
  • AWS MSK
  • S3
  • BigQuery
  • Parquet
  • Presto
  • VectorDB

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer on our Core Platform team 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 - and make it agent-forward.

This is a hands-on role for an engineer with deep data infrastructure experience, ideally sharpened at a data-focused startup.

What You'll Do

  • 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

What We're Looking for

  • 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 (Senior, Staff+)

Bonus Points

  • 1-2 years at a data-focused startup (Databricks, Snowflake)
  • Object and analytical storage experience: S3, GCS, Google BigQuery, AWS Athena, Presto, Parquet
  • Vector and graph stores: VectorDB, Turbopuffer, Puppygraph
  • A secondary spike in Observability Infrastructure

Pay and benefits

The standard base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $300,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

About Cogent

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
Read the original posting

From Cogent Security's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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