Software Engineer, Infrastructure

The role

Infrastructure Engineers build the compute, orchestration, networking, and platform systems for Devin and Windsurf. You will own agent execution infrastructure, developer platforms, and reliability systems.

What you will do

• Design and operate sandboxed compute environments including VM orchestration, container management, resource scheduling, and isolation at scale.
• Create internal infrastructure including CI/CD pipelines, deployment systems, and developer tooling.
• Define SLOs, build monitoring and alerting systems, lead incident response, and close the loop on postmortems.
• Anticipate capacity and architecture needs to stay ahead of product growth.
• Work with product engineers and researchers to design infrastructure that meets their needs.

Required qualifications

• Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Comfort owning complex systems codebases.
• Experience with sandboxing, network isolation, and secure multi-tenant compute.
• BS, MS, or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline from a highly selective program.

Nice to have

• Prior experience at a frontier AI lab, applied AI company, or developer tools company

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision: Fully paid for you and your dependents
• 401(k): Company match included
• Private chef
• Cozy slippers
• Endless snacks

About the company

Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. They are the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer, and Windsurf, an AI-native IDE.