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Cognition

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco$260k–$300kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Cognition seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate the scalable, reliable systems powering Devin (an AI software engineer) and Windsurf (an AI IDE). You'll own compute orchestration, sandboxed environments, CI/CD pipelines, and observability across millions of agent sessions while partnering closely with product teams.

What you'll do

  • Design and operate sandboxed compute environments for agent task execution, including VM orchestration, container management, and resource scheduling
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment systems, and developer tooling that internal teams depend on
  • Define SLOs, build monitoring and alerting systems, lead incident response, and drive postmortem improvements
  • Anticipate capacity and architecture needs to stay ahead of product growth and scale
  • Work with product engineers and researchers to understand infrastructure requirements and design solutions that enable fast shipping
  • Implement security, isolation, and multi-tenant compute strategies for agentic workloads running arbitrary code

What they're looking for

  • Distributed systems design and large-scale infrastructure operation
  • Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform)
  • Python and systems-level coding
  • Observability, monitoring, and alerting design
  • Sandboxing and network isolation
  • CI/CD and deployment pipeline architecture

Benefits

  • Base salary $260,000–$300,000 plus significant early-stage equity
  • Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Private chef and endless snacks
  • Collaborative environment with world-class competitive programmers and former founders
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Cognition

Cognition builds AI software engineers and developer tools, including Devin (an AI software engineer) and Windsurf (an AI-native IDE) that help developers automate tasks and write code more efficiently. The company is hiring Deployed Engineers to work directly with customers on adoption and integration, SREs to manage production reliability and infrastructure, federal engineers for government deployments, and IT specialists to support internal operations.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a large-scale infrastructure system you've designed—what were the key reliability challenges and how did you solve them?
  • Describe your experience with Kubernetes in production. What operational issues have you encountered and how did you resolve them?
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