Devops Engineer, Federal

The role

You will own and maintain the technical lifecycle of complex federal enterprise deployments. You will work with customer engineering teams to scope deployments, ensure security compliance, and make changes to the core codebase to improve deployability.

What you will do

• Architect, own, and maintain the end-to-end technical lifecycle of complex, mission-critical federal enterprise deployments and their environments.
• Work directly with customer engineering and GTM teams to define deployment scope, ensuring compliance with security controls and federal regulations.
• Provide technical depth on strategic deployments.
• Contribute directly to the core product codebase to improve deployability, operability, and reliability.
• Translate field learnings and customer pain points into actionable product direction.
• Build product extensions, integrations, and automation using Cognition’s APIs and platform primitives.
• Serve as the key technical and connective link between the Federal team and core infrastructure engineering teams.
• Handle escalated technical issues and provide architectural judgment.

Required qualifications

• Strong engineering foundation with a proven ability to build, debug, and maintain complex, distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Experience working within the government or working in a government focused company.
• Direct experience in, implementing compliance and security controls required for federal or highly regulated environments.
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar.
• Comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases.
• Have a track record of pursuing excellence at high levels, in any domain.
• Have operated cross-functionally.

Nice to have

• Have built or contributed to software at companies known for engineering rigor.
• Enjoy hard, ambiguous problems without obvious solutions.
• Have a high tolerance for ambiguity, intensity, and sustained effort.

About the company

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