Cogent Security · 1 month ago
Backend Engineer (Member of Technical Staff)
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$100K/yr - $300K/yr
5+ years expCogent Security is an Applied AI Lab focused on developing AI agents for cybersecurity. The role involves designing and implementing backend services and integrations to support autonomous AI workers, as well as laying down infrastructure for scalability and contributing to engineering culture.
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Responsibilities
Design and implement key backend, integration platform subsystems
Understand business goals, product and technology strategies and customer requirements and implement supporting backend and integration platform subsystems to achieve them
Adapt and evolve systems and plans to implement newly identified design partner and customer requirements
Adapt and evolve systems to implement non-functional requirements (compliance, security, enterprise integration etc.)
Prepare Cogent for future headcount, customer, and data growth by working with a team to design and build an infrastructure that will scale and that achieves requirements in the areas of product capabilities, non-functional needs (reliability, security, disaster recovery, etc.)
Onboard, support and uplevel future team members
Participate in, provide feedback on, and iterate interview process as we scale the team up
Actively contribute to Engineering Excellence, Operational Excellence and Recruiting initiatives
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader, overseeing and contributing to multiple backend systems and infrastructure projects
Expertise in architecting, developing, and scaling backend systems, including both stateless and stateful architectures, to support high-performance, enterprise-level applications
Proven experience with distributed systems, microservices, and serverless architectures, ensuring robustness, scalability, and fault tolerance
Strong knowledge of backend programming languages such as Python, Go or similar, with a deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization
Experience with API design and implementation (RESTful and/or gRPC), integrating with frontend systems, data platforms, and third-party services
Solid experience with containerization, orchestration, and deployment technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines in multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
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
Early StageTotal Funding
$11MKey Investors
Greylock
2025-07-15Seed· $11M
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