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Salary: USD 100,000 - 300,000 / annual
Cogent Security is an Applied AI Lab building next-generation AI agents for cybersecurity. The company's "AI Taskforce" assesses petabytes of enterprise data to identify and remediate security issues before critical breaches occur. Backed by Greylock and Bain Capital Ventures, Cogent partners with Fortune 500 companies to secure complex production environments.
You will join the Core Platform team as a Senior Storage Infrastructure Engineer, owning how the company stores, protects, and operates data at scale. This is a hands-on role requiring deep data infrastructure experience, ideally from a data-focused startup.
Key responsibilities include:
- Standardizing backup, restore, retention, and encryption policies across Aurora/RDS, Clickhouse, and MSK
- Building storage observability dashboards for capacity, performance, replication, lag, and cost monitoring
- Creating a Storage Operations Agent for incident triage, slow-query investigation, and remediation workflows
Required qualifications:
- 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 at Senior or Staff+ level
Bonus experience includes 1-2 years at a data-focused startup (Databricks, Snowflake), object and analytical storage (S3, GCS, BigQuery, Athena, Presto, Parquet), vector and graph stores (VectorDB, Turbopuffer, Puppygraph), and observability infrastructure expertise.
