Senior Software Engineer - Backend Development

What Cognite is :

Relentless to achieve. Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI, and data solutions that solve the worlds hardest, highest-impact problems. With unmatched industrial heritage and a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities, including low-code AI agents, Cognite accelerates the digital transformation to drive operational improvements. We thrive in challenges. We challenge assumptions. We execute with speed and ownership. If you view obstacles as signals to step forward not backwards youll feel right at home here. Our Moonshot is bold : Unlock $100B in customer value by 2035, and redefine how global industry works. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we will forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.

About The Role :

We're seeking a Software Engineer who excels at building high-performance distributed systems and thrives in a fast-paced startup environment. You'll be working on cutting-edge data infrastructure challenges that directly impact how Fortune 500 industrial companies manage their most critical operational data.

How youll demonstrate Ownership :

• Platform Ownership : Design, build, and operate the core serverless execution engine and Workflows orchestration layer that serve as foundational primitives for CDFs AI and automation capabilities.

• Reliability Engineering : Own uptime, latency SLOs, and incident response for platform services ensuring Functions execute deterministically and Workflows progress without data loss or silent failures.

• Scalability : Architect for multi-tenant & multi-cloud, high-throughput workloads. Design scheduling, queueing, and retry mechanisms that degrade gracefully under pressure.

• API Design : Define and evolve clean API-first architecture, versioned REST and event-driven APIs that downstream engineering teams and external customers depend on.

• Observability : Instrument services with distributed tracing, structured logging, and alerting (Open-telemetry / Prometheus / Grafana / Honeycomb stack) so failures surface before customers notice.

• CI/CD & Testing : Champion test automation unit, integration, and smoke tests and maintain deployment pipelines that ship to production with confidence.

• Performance : Profile and resolve bottlenecks in execution throughput, cold-start latencies, and cross-service call chains driving a snappy platform experience for industrial workloads.

• Cost Efficiency (Bonus) : Model compute and storage costs for functions execution; identify and implement optimizations that reduce cloud spend without sacrificing reliability.

The Impact you bring to Cognite :

• 6 to 8 Years of Engineering : Proven track record building and operating production backend services at scale.