Cogent Security
Software Engineer - Storage Infrastructure (Senior+)
$100K–$300K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 3-6 years at a successful tech company (Senior, Staff+); bonus: 1-2 years at a data-focused startup.
About the job
Own and build the storage infrastructure operations layer, including backup, observability, and an agent for data-store incident workflows.
What you'll do
- Standardize backup, restore, retention, and encryption policies across Aurora / RDS, Clickhouse, and MSK.
- Build dashboards for storage capacity, performance, replication, lag, and cost.
- Create a Storage Operations Agent for incident triage, slow-query investigation, and remediation workflows.
What they ask for
- Deep experience with Aurora RDS, Clickhouse, Kafka / AWS MSK, and Postgres.
- Experience with table formats and lakehouse patterns, including Iceberg.
- Strong coding skills in Python and Golang.
- Infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform.
Nice to have
- 1-2 years at a data-focused startup (Databricks, Snowflake).
- Object and analytical storage, vector or graph store, or observability infrastructure experience.
Pay
USD $100,000 - $300,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
Aurora / RDS, Clickhouse, MSK, Kafka / AWS MSK, Postgres, Iceberg, Python, Golang
AI focus
Create a Storage Operations Agent for incident triage, slow-query investigation, and remediation workflows.
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