Cogent Security
Software Engineer - Backend
$100K–$300K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader, overseeing and contributing to multiple backend systems and infrastructure projects.
About the job
Build backend services, integrations, and scalable infrastructure that power Cogent’s autonomous AI workers and enterprise security workflows.
What you'll do
- Design and evolve backend and integration platform subsystems to meet product, customer, security, and compliance requirements.
- Build infrastructure that can scale with growth while meeting reliability, security, and disaster-recovery needs.
- Support and develop future team members and contribute to engineering excellence, operations, and recruiting.
What they ask for
- Expertise architecting, developing, and scaling high-performance backend systems, including stateless and stateful architectures.
- Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and serverless architectures.
- Strong knowledge of Python, Go, or similar, including concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization.
- Experience with RESTful and/or gRPC APIs, and containerization, orchestration, and deployment technologies in multi-cloud environments.
Pay
$100,000 - $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go, RESTful, gRPC, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD
AI focus
Build backend services and integrations that power autonomous AI workers and agentic security workflows.
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