Cogent Security · 1 month ago
Data Platform Engineer (Member of Technical Staff)
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$100K/yr - $300K/yr
5+ years expCogent Security is on a mission to stop breaches and prevent cybercrime by innovating at the frontier of generative AI systems. The role involves designing and implementing the foundational pillars of Cogent’s data platform and integration pipeline to reliably ingest and normalize enterprise data sources for use in AI systems.
ComputerInformation TechnologyNetwork Security
Responsibilities
Build the new standard for ingesting and extracting enterprise data
Your role will involve building data connectors, running data pipelines, and extracting insights and context from our customer’s enterprise environments
You should get excited about building robust and secure backend systems that handle large volumes of data, ETLs, as well as reimagining how enterprise security teams should extract, store and access data
Design highly performant data pipelines and indexing strategies that enable Applied AI use cases like semantic search and retrieval augmented generation
Work with Applied AI teams to taxonomize, correlate and deduplicate data across various enterprise sources, and architect indexing, storage and query strategies for data in Cogent’s data lake
Architect the modern data platform for Gen AI
The LLM stack and Gen AI landscape is changing everyday
You’ll be front and center of making build vs buy decisions for various tools and services needed by the data platform, and integrating these decisions into our broader architecture and tech roadmap
Implement generalizable design patterns and system components that allow us to scale from 1 integration to thousands of integrations
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader leading multiple projects
Experience building data pipelines for Information Retrieval Systems (such as knowledge graphs, search engines, or similar) for enterprise use cases
Experience in ETL orchestration and workflow management tools (such as Temporal, Airflow) as well as building batch processing and streaming systems with tools like Apache Kafka/Flink
Expert in database fundamentals, SQL, data reliability practices and distributed computing
Experience working fluently with standard orchestration & deployment technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Databricks, etc in multiple clouds
Benefits
Variable compensation
Equity
Benefits
Company
Cogent Security
Cogent Security has created the first AI taskforce for vulnerability management.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$11MKey Investors
Greylock
2025-07-15Seed· $11M
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